{"id":1605,"date":"2025-10-14T01:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T01:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/1605\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T01:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T01:31:07","slug":"spacex-launch-from-texas-lights-up-skies-on-the-suncoast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/1605\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launch from Texas lights up skies on the Suncoast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A test launch of SpaceX\u2019s Starship lit up the skies along the Gulf Coast Monday night, giving beachgoers on the Suncoast a spectacular view. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Starship-Super Heavy rocket launched from Starbase, Texas, on a suborbital flight at 7:15 p.m. EDT. It was the 11th flight of the integrated launch vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The primary test objective was scheduled to be demonstrating a unique landing burn engine configuration SpaceX plans to use on the next generation Super Heavy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The main booster was on a trajectory to an offshore landing point in the Gulf and did not return to the launch site where it is designed to be \u201ccaught\u201d by the launch tower.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Starship upper stage was targeted to splash down in the Indian Ocean following \u201ca dynamic banking maneuver\u201d designed to \u201cmimic the path a ship will take on future flights returning to Starbase,\u201d SpaceX said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A test launch of SpaceX\u2019s Starship lit up the skies along the Gulf Coast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2225,2224,2223,2226,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-1605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-launch","tag-rocket","tag-spacex","tag-starship","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}