{"id":633492,"date":"2026-10-01T19:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T19:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/633492\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T19:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T19:54:10","slug":"live-coverage-ai-datacenter-prototypes-energy-redirection-demonstrators-and-more-launching-on-spacexs-transporter-18-spaceflight-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/633492\/","title":{"rendered":"Live coverage: AI datacenter prototypes, energy redirection demonstrators and more launching on SpaceX\u2019s Transporter-18 \u2013 Spaceflight Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261001-Vandenberg-File-Feature-Image.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261001-Vandenberg-File-Feature-Image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74460\"  \/><\/a>A Falcon 9 rocket stands ready for launch from Vandenberg in this file photo. Image: SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p>An artificial intelligence prototype from Google, a methane-tracker, pharmaceutical manufacturing labs, and more are hitching a ride onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket flying from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Transporter-18 mission is SpaceX second launch of the day, following the successful flight of NASA\u2019s SpaceX Crew-13 mission from Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East is scheduled for 11:32 a.m. PDT (2:32 p.m. EDT \/ 1832 UTC). The rocket will head off on a southerly trajectory upon leaving the pad.<\/p>\n<p>Spaceflight Now will have live coverage beginning about 30 minutes prior to liftoff.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX will launch the mission using the Falcon 9 booster with the tail number B1082. This will be its 25th flight following the launches of NROL-145, USSF-62, and OneWeb Launch 20, and 21 batches of Starlink satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 7.5 minutes after liftoff, B1082 will target a landing back at Landing Zone 4. This will be the 36th landing at this site and 665th landing of a Falcon booster to date.<\/p>\n<p>The 130 payloads will be deployed into a polar orbit of the course of 11 minutes starting about 54 minutes into the flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Falcon 9 rocket stands ready for launch from Vandenberg in this file photo. Image: SpaceX. An artificial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":["post-633492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}