A SpaceX launch supporting the Department of Defense (DOD) is scheduled to liftoff from Vandenberg Space Force Base Saturday, according to the base. <\/p>\n
The launch window for the Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit opens at 8:41 a.m. and remains open until 12:41 p.m. <\/p>\n
According to the launch countdown on SpaceX’s website, liftoff is scheduled for the beginning of the window. <\/p>\n
WATCH: Environmental draft report released as Vandenberg launches increase<\/p>\n
Environmental draft report released as Vandenberg launches increase<\/p>\n
The launch will support DOD communications through \u201cadvanced low Earth orbit technology,\u201d according to Vandenberg.<\/p>\n
With the second-stage, which has been used 27 previous times, set to land on a droneship in the Pacific Ocean, no sonic boom is expected to be heard locally. <\/p>\n
A live webcast of the mission will begin on SpaceX\u2019s X account<\/a> and website<\/a> about five minutes before liftoff. <\/p>\n This will mark the 46th overall launch this year and third this month from Vandenberg. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A SpaceX launch supporting the Department of Defense (DOD) is scheduled to liftoff from Vandenberg Space Force Base…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-152669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}