Starlink Group 5-7

First Group 5 launch from Vandenberg - and an unusually low-inclination flight for a West Coast pad. While prior Group 5 missions to the 43° shell flew from Florida, this one departed SLC-4E, a trajectory that penalized payload capacity: 47 v1.5 satellites instead of the ~56 typical of an East Coast Group 5 run.

Vandenberg almost exclusively serves polar or sun-synchronous orbits; a 43° insertion here set a record for the lowest inclination ever achieved from the U.S. West Coast.