{"id":223151,"date":"2026-03-17T03:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T03:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/223151\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T03:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T03:58:07","slug":"spacex-launch-tonight-in-socal-when-to-scan-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/223151\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launch tonight in SoCal: When to scan the sky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Residents of Southern California who see a mysterious streak in the nocturnal sky can chalk it up to another SpaceX launch.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9  is set to launch 25 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base to low-Earth orbit at 10:16 p.m. Monday, <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/launches\/sl-17-24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to a post<\/a> by the company.<\/p>\n<p>The launch will stream live on <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/launches\/sl-17-24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SpaceX\u2019s website<\/a> and <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X account<\/a>, starting five minutes before launch time.<\/p>\n<p>The booster involved has <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2024-04-11\/spacex-is-launching-more-rockets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">already flown 13 missions<\/a>, and is expected to land on a ship in the Pacific Ocean. This launch will bring Starlink\u2019s total number of satellites in space more than 10,000 for the first time, according to <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/2026\/03\/16\/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-25-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-california\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Space Flight Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura county residents may hear sonic booms during the launch, the company advised.<\/p>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents of Southern California who see a mysterious streak in the nocturnal sky can chalk it up to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,1804,18786,63,101795,4130,5079,32053,1744,18174,84871,23611,46429,44695,3660,76091],"class_list":["post-223151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-company","tag-launch","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-low-earth-orbit","tag-pacific-ocean","tag-san-luis-obispo","tag-sky","tag-space","tag-spacex","tag-starlink-satellite","tag-tonight","tag-total-number","tag-vandenberg-space-force-base","tag-website","tag-x-account"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}