Starlink Group 7-8

22 v2 mini Starlinks delivered to the 53° shell on B1071's 13th flight. The gap from the previous SLC-4E launch set a new Vandenberg pad turnaround record: 6 days, 13 hours, 44 minutes. It was also SpaceX's 100th launch within any rolling 365-day window - a span that ran from December 8, 2022 to this liftoff.

2023 ended with the United States logging 109 orbital launches, surpassing the Soviet Union's 1982 record of 108 - the previous high-water mark for any single country in a calendar year.