{"id":415915,"date":"2026-10-01T17:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T17:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/415915\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T17:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T17:54:09","slug":"spacex-launching-classified-spy-mission-from-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/415915\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launching classified spy mission from Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX&#8217;s Falcon Heavy rocket launching classified spy mission from Florida&#8217;s Space Coast<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1790877249_307_0ef9e7e2-0673-4d77-92c5-22a1e3663de5_1697751930.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Allison Petro\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">SpaceX is targeting Thursday for Falcon Heavy\u2019s launch of the NROL-97 mission from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Liftoff is targeted for 11:53 p.m., with a backup opportunity available on Friday at 11:48 p.m. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">This is the second and fourth flight for the two first-stage side boosters supporting this mission. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Following stage separation, Falcon Heavy\u2019s two side boosters will land on SpaceX\u2019s Landing Zones 1 and 2 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">This would be the second launch of the day in Florida after the successful liftoff of Crew-13, which sent four astronauts to the International Space Station.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">&gt;&gt; WESH 2 will stream the launch using the video player above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX&#8217;s Falcon Heavy rocket launching classified spy mission from Florida&#8217;s Space Coast BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 SpaceX is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[164704,164703,164705,28,30,29,41073,16921,29901,54509,11969,2451,312,1435,82733,1284,918],"class_list":["post-415915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-classified-spy-mission","tag-falcon-heavy-rocket","tag-first-stage-side-booster","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-international-space-station","tag-kennedy-space-center","tag-launch","tag-liftoff","tag-nasa","tag-p-m","tag-space-coast","tag-spacex","tag-stage-separation","tag-thursday","tag-wesh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415915","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=415915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}