{"id":17440,"date":"2025-10-23T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/17440\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T16:00:08","slug":"spacex-set-for-falcon-9-rocket-launch-thursday-from-floridas-space-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/17440\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX set for Falcon 9 rocket launch Thursday from Florida\u2019s Space Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SpaceX crews are preparing for a Falcon 9 rocket launch Thursday night from Florida\u2019s Space Coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The four-hour launch window will open at 9:30 p.m. at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The launch is aiming to send the SpainSat NG II mission into orbit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SpaceX said this mission will mark the 22nd and final flight for the Falcon 9\u2019s first-stage booster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The booster has previously supported several missions, including CRS-26, OneWeb Launch 16, Intelsat IS-40e, SES O3b mPOWER-C, Ovzon-3, Eutelsat 26D, Turksat 6A, Maxar 2, SXM-9, and 12 Starlink missions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If the launch is delayed, a backup opportunity is available on Friday at the same time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Channel 9 will monitor the planned launch and provide updates on Eyewitness News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX crews are preparing for a Falcon 9 rocket launch Thursday night from Florida\u2019s Space Coast. The four-hour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6940,6941,28,30,29,312,14583,1435],"class_list":{"0":"post-17440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-cape-canaveral-space-force-station","9":"tag-falcon-9-rocket","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-florida-headlines","12":"tag-florida-news","13":"tag-space-coast","14":"tag-space-launch-complex-40","15":"tag-spacex"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17440","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=17440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}