{"id":154550,"date":"2025-09-13T19:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T19:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/154550\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T19:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T19:22:09","slug":"vandenbergs-next-mission-spacex-rocket-launch-on-saturday-local-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/154550\/","title":{"rendered":"Vandenberg\u2019s Next Mission: SpaceX Rocket Launch on Saturday | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What: Falcon 9 rocket\u00a0launch at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vandenberg.spaceforce.mil\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vandenberg Space Force Base<\/a> in Santa Barbara County.<\/p>\n<p>When: Between 8:41 a.m. and 12:41 p.m. Saturday, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceX<\/a>. If needed, the team has backup opportunities during the same time period Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Where: Space Launch Complex-4 on South Base.<\/p>\n<p>Landing: The first-stage booster, making its 28th flight, will land on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship positioned in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Why: Deliver 24 satellites into orbit for the Starlink constellation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Watch: A live webcast of the mission is scheduled to begin about five minutes before liftoff at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/launches\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spacex.com\/launches<\/a> and on <a href=\"https:\/\/links-2.govdelivery.com\/CL0\/https:%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FSpaceX%3Futm_medium=email%26utm_source=govdelivery\/1\/0101019494e21328-51551a32-704e-4bc9-95e2-a2608e8704e9-000000\/Mt-yXKBtzIbAB9BR_A2SQf83hEfxdyPPb9_i2J9_C4c=389\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X @SpaceX<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To watch the liftoff in person, the Lompoc Valley has multiple locations offering views of the launch pad. Those include the peak of Harris Grade Road, west of Lompoc\u2019s city limits and around Vandenberg Village, including near the intersection of Moonglow and Stardust roads.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vandenberg launches close to sunset or sunrise can be especially picturesque. If skies are clear, the rocket\u2019s departure might be visible from elsewhere around California and, under certain conditions, other Western states.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What: Falcon 9 rocket\u00a0launch at Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County. When: Between 8:41 a.m. and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[983,79],"class_list":["post-154550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-local-news","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154550","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=154550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}