{"id":592041,"date":"2026-09-06T15:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T15:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/592041\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T15:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T15:32:08","slug":"spacex-launches-falcon-9-from-vandenberg-sfb-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/592041\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches Falcon 9 from Vandenberg SFB Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE (7:27 a.m.) &#8211; The launch lifted off. <br \/>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE (7:17 a..m.) Liftoff is now scheduled for around 7:26 a.m., according to SpaceX. <\/p>\n<p>\u2014<br \/>ORIGINAL STORY: SpaceX is preparing to launch a Falcon 9 rocket early Sunday morning. <\/p>\n<p>Liftoff is scheduled for approximately 4:14 a.m. The mission is expected to deliver 27 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX officials say it will be the 19th flight for the first-stage booster supporting the mission. Following stage separation, the first stage is expected to land on a droneship in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>No sonic boom is expected to be heard locally. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATE (7:27 a.m.) &#8211; The launch lifted off. \u2014 UPDATE (7:17 a..m.) Liftoff is now scheduled for around&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-592041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}