{"id":335625,"date":"2026-07-10T11:36:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T11:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/335625\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T11:36:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T11:36:31","slug":"what-was-that-check-out-these-images-of-thursday-mornings-spacex-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/335625\/","title":{"rendered":"What was that? Check out these images of Thursday morning\u2019s SpaceX launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cheryl Shafer shared this stunning photo from South Jacksonville Beach around 5:30 a.m. Thursday of the SpaceX launch (Special to News4JAX)<\/p>\n

SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 launched early Thursday morning, taking 29 Starlink<\/a> satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.<\/p>\n

This was the 36th flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission, and the jellyfish-like trail created during launch captured a lot of attention.<\/p>\n

Viewers shared photos and videos with News4JAX, asking us to identify what was in the sky.<\/p>\n

If you captured photos or video of the launch, share them with us on SnapJAX<\/a>, and we might share them on air or online.<\/p>\n

Here are some of our favorites:<\/p>\n

Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

About the AuthorFrancine Frazier headshotFrancine Frazier<\/a><\/p>\n

A Jacksonville native and proud University of North Florida alum, Francine Frazier has been with News4Jax since 2014 after spending nine years at The Florida Times-Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cheryl Shafer shared this stunning photo from South Jacksonville Beach around 5:30 a.m. Thursday of the SpaceX launch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117,21077,1770,1435],"class_list":["post-335625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-snapjax","tag-space-news","tag-spacex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335625","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=335625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}