{"id":294289,"date":"2025-11-16T01:58:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T01:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/294289\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T01:58:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T01:58:03","slug":"spacex-falcon-9-to-launch-nasas-sentinel-6b-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/294289\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Falcon 9 to launch NASA\u2019s Sentinel-6B satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vandenberg Guardians and Airmen are set to support the launch of NASA\u2019s Sentinel-6B satellite aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday, November 16, from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base. Liftoff is scheduled for 9:21 p.m. PT.<\/p>\n

After stage separation, the Falcon 9 first stage will land at Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4), creating a sonic boom that may be heard around the base.<\/p>\n

The webcast begins about one hour before liftoff at plus.nasa.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Sentinel-6B satellite uses radar to measure ocean topography, providing continuous data on sea level trends. It also gathers high-resolution vertical profiles of atmospheric temperature, helping scientists track changes in Earth’s climate and improve weather forecasting. Sentinel-6B will take over from its twin, Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, which launched on Falcon 9 in November 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vandenberg Guardians and Airmen are set to support the launch of NASA\u2019s Sentinel-6B satellite aboard a SpaceX Falcon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-294289","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\/294289","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=294289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}