SpaceX is preparing for its second launch of the week from Vandenberg Space Force Base.<\/p>\n
A Falcon 9 carrying 24 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit is scheduled to liftoff from SLC-4E at 8:51 p.m. Friday with backup opportunities available until 9:52 p.m.<\/p>\n
If the launch does not happen Friday, another opportunity is available Saturday beginning at 9:26 p.m.<\/p>\n
The first-stage booster is expected to land on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship in the Pacific Ocean shortly after takeoff, which means there will likely not be a sonic boom heard locally.<\/p>\n
WATCH: SpaceX launches Falcon 9 from Vandenberg SFB July 15<\/p>\n
SpaceX successfully launches Falcon 9 rocket Vandenberg Space Force Base<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the 14th time this booster has been used to support a SpaceX mission.<\/p>\n
A\u00a0live webcast<\/a>\u00a0of the launch will begin about five minutes before liftoff on SpaceX\u2019s\u00a0X account<\/a>\u00a0or on the X TV app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX is preparing for its second launch of the week from Vandenberg Space Force Base. A Falcon 9…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":["post-4865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}