{"id":132021,"date":"2026-01-26T11:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/132021\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T11:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:58:08","slug":"spacex-rocket-launch-from-florida-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/132021\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX rocket launch from Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/topic\/SpaceX\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/topic\/SpaceX\/\">SpaceX<\/a> late Monday will attempt to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida\u2019s Space Coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The launch, scheduled for 11:42 p.m., will send a <a href=\"https:\/\/sxcontent9668.azureedge.us\/cms-assets\/assets\/GPS_III_9_fffe49cb71.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">GPS III-9<\/a> satellite into medium-Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The launch window will be open for 15 minutes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">A backup launch opportunity, if needed, is available at 11:38 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">[SPACE CALENDAR: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/space-news\/2026\/01\/05\/when-is-the-next-florida-rocket-launch-check-our-updated-calendar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/space-news\/2026\/01\/05\/when-is-the-next-florida-rocket-launch-check-our-updated-calendar\/\">When is next rocket launch from Florida<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The launch will mark the fifth flight for the first-stage booster, which previously launched KF-01, IMAP, NROL-77 and one Starlink mission. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Following stage separation, the first stage will land on a droneship in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ClickOrlando.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/ClickOrlando.com\">ClickOrlando.com<\/a> will livestream the launch at the very top of this story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">[VIDEO BELOW: Recent SpaceX launch]<\/p>\n<p>Space Coast &amp; Beyond<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kiwhtN\">Get space news rocketed to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. \u2013 SpaceX late Monday will attempt to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida\u2019s Space&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[315,6465,28,30,29,1769,1770,1435],"class_list":{"0":"post-132021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-brevard-county","9":"tag-falcon-9","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-florida-headlines","12":"tag-florida-news","13":"tag-space","14":"tag-space-news","15":"tag-spacex"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}