{"id":315961,"date":"2026-06-22T19:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/315961\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T19:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T19:09:08","slug":"spacex-eyes-sunrise-falcon-9-launch-for-starfall-demo-mission-from-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/315961\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX eyes sunrise Falcon 9 launch for Starfall Demo mission from Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  \u2013 SpaceX is gearing up for a sunrise liftoff from Florida\u2019s Space Coast with a Falcon 9 rocket that is set to carry the Starfall Demo mission to low-Earth orbit. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The one-hour launch window opens at 6:43 a.m. on Tuesday from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">If the launch doesn\u2019t happen on Tuesday, SpaceX has a backup opportunity available on Wednesday, with the window opening at the same time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Tuesday\u2019s launch will mark the 29th flight for the Falcon 9\u2019s first-stage booster, which has previously missions including Crew-6, SES O3b mPOWER-B, USSF-124, BlueBird 1-5, Nusantara Lima (PSN N5), and 23 Starlink missions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Following stage separation, the booster will attempt a landing on SpaceX\u2019s A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship, which will be stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News Alerts<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 bTVksG\">Get breaking news alerts delivered 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 is gearing up for a sunrise liftoff from Florida\u2019s Space Coast with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[315,1767,28,30,29,1770,1435],"class_list":["post-315961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-brevard-county","tag-cape-canaveral","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-space-news","tag-spacex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315961","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=315961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}