{"id":162651,"date":"2026-02-20T15:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162651\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T15:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:09:09","slug":"florida-residents-report-sonic-boom-in-vero-beach-port-st-lucie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162651\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida residents report sonic boom in Vero Beach, Port St. Lucie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Countless people online reported hearing a sonic boom in Port St. Lucie and Vero Beach the evening of Feb. 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At 8:41 p.m. Feb. 19 SpaceX launched the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/launches\/sl-10-36\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 Starlink satellites;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 Starlink satellites<\/a> to low-Earth orbit from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During the landing, residents may have heard one or more sonic booms, according to SpaceX&#8217;s website. This is because the booster is speeding back from space <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/story\/tech\/science\/space\/spacex\/2026\/02\/17\/spacex-rocket-launch-in-cape-canaveral-florida-to-booster-landing-near-bahamas\/88693932007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:faster than sound;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">faster than sound<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The booster landed on the Just Read the Instructions drone ship stationed in the Atlantic Ocean <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/story\/tech\/science\/space\/spacex\/2026\/02\/19\/spacex-rocket-launches-from-florida-cape-canaveral-booster-lands-near-bahamas-thursday\/88716831007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:off the coast of the Bahamas;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">off the coast of the Bahamas<\/a>. This is the second time SpaceX has landed that far south, the first was in Feb. 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/staff\/74965934007\/olivia-franklin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Olivia Franklin;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Olivia Franklin<\/a> is TCPalm\u2019s trending reporter. You can contact her at olivia.franklin@tcpalm.com, 317-627-8048 or follow her on X <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Livvvvv_5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@Livvvvv_5;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">@Livvvvv_5<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on Treasure Coast Newspapers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/story\/news\/local\/florida\/2026\/02\/20\/florida-residents-report-sonic-boom-in-vero-beach-port-st-lucie-county-indian-river-county-spacex\/88774777007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Florida residents report sonic boom in Vero Beach, Port St. Lucie;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Florida residents report sonic boom in Vero Beach, Port St. Lucie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Countless people online reported hearing a sonic boom in Port St. Lucie and Vero Beach the evening of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[6940,45082,171,173,172,77757,1435,676],"class_list":["post-162651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-cape-canaveral-space-force-station","tag-launch-complex-40","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-sonic-boom","tag-spacex","tag-vero-beach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162651","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=162651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}