Starlink Group 4-8
Success
FEB 21202214:44:20 UTCFirst Group 4 mission to deploy satellites through two upper stage burns - a direct response to the Group 4-7 storm loss three weeks earlier. The second burn raised the deployment perigee from ~210 km to ~325 km, placing the 46 v1.5 Starlinks above the altitude where the February 4 geomagnetic storm had proved fatal to their predecessors.
LIFTOFF
FEB 21 202214:44:20 UTC
Success
launched fromSLC-40Canaveral
aboardFalcon 9 B5intoLEO
Booster
B1058.11
Landed on drone ship · ASOG
Payload
Starlink: Group 4-8 (46 satellites)
Communications
