{"id":202626,"date":"2025-10-05T02:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T02:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/202626\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T02:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T02:32:08","slug":"spacex-launch-at-vandenberg-marks-new-month-after-record-setting-september-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/202626\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Launch at Vandenberg Marks New Month After Record-Setting September | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the heels of the record-setting month, the Falco 9 rocket team marked entered Otober  with a\u00a0Friday morning launch from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vandenberg.spaceforce.mil\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vandenberg Space Force Base.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The two-stage rocket blasted off at 7:06 a.m., followed by the first-stage booster\u2019s landing minutes later on the droneship positioned the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The rocket deployed the 28 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starlink.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Starlink<\/a> satellites roughly an hour after launch, SpaceX said.<\/p>\n<p>This was the first launch of October for the Vandenberg team, following a busy September.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpecial shout out to the entire west coast team for their first ever 8 launch\/month,\u201d Kiko Dontchev, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceX<\/a> vice president of launch, said on social media. \u201cIt\u2019s also the first time since October 2019 that Vandy launched 50% or more of the manifest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The milestone means Dontchev will wind up with a pie in the face and a dousing in a dunk tank, he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI promised the west coast team that if\/when they pulled off an 8 launch\/month, I would show up to California in a chicken or clown suit ready for a dunk tank and pies to the face. Time to make good on my promise,\u201d Dontchev added, promising to provide pictures of the payoff.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, September also marked the anniversary of the first Falcon rocket launch from Vandenberg in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Since then SpaceX has launched more 150 Falcon rocket missions from Vandenberg and 500 in total from both coasts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has a been an honor to provide consistent, reliable access to space from Space Launch Complex-4 for a little over 12 years now, helping create a hub for innovation and growth within the local community and beyond,\u201d said Felicia Casciano, director of Falcon Operations at SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we\u2019re only getting started,\u201d she said during a Sept. 10  event in Santa Maria regarding Space Vandenberg.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX conducted \u201can unprecedented 134 missions\u2019 and aims to complete approximately 160 this year from it various sites.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The firm also intends to modify a second facility, Space Launch Complex-6, to accommodate Falcon Heavy rockets to deliver larger payloads along with Falcon 9 rockets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vandenberg officials said they expect the base could see approximately 70 missions including various rockets and missiles by the end of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the heels of the record-setting month, the Falco 9 rocket team marked entered Otober with a\u00a0Friday morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[983,79,193],"class_list":["post-202626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-local-news","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202626","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=202626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}