{"id":433024,"date":"2026-10-20T13:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T13:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/433024\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T13:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T13:52:11","slug":"photos-space-jellyfish-light-up-bay-area-sky-after-spacex-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/433024\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: \u2018Space jellyfish\u2019 light up Bay Area sky after SpaceX launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/jellyfish8-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-47e62d5a=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; SpaceX launched 32 payloads into orbit aboard its Bandwagon-5 rideshare mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station early Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>   Cape Canaveral morning launch <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 7:04 a.m. Tuesday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Skywatchers across the Bay Area spotted a glowing space jellyfish effect high above ground shortly after liftoff. Sunlight struck the expanding exhaust plume while ground observers remained in darkness. The Bandwagon-5 mission carries 32 payloads, including cubesats, microsatellites and reentry vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>  Booster landing plan <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">\u00a0Tuesday&#8217;s launch marked the 19th flight for the Falcon 9 first-stage booster. The booster previously supported Crew-9, Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1, Fram2 and several Starlink missions. Teams targeted a precision landing on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean following stage separation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story was gathered from SpaceX, who provided launch details and booster flight history.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/tampa\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/organization\/spacex\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceX<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; SpaceX launched 32 payloads into orbit aboard its Bandwagon-5 rideshare mission from Cape Canaveral&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[47,629,115,1536,1435,135,137,136,628],"class_list":["post-433024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-fl","tag-hillsborough","tag-news","tag-organization","tag-spacex","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433024","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=433024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}