{"id":384863,"date":"2026-01-03T05:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/384863\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T05:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:04:07","slug":"spacex-launch-sighting-in-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/384863\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launch sighting in New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPeople across New Mexico are asking themselves, what bright light was spotted in the sky?SpaceX, a private American aerospace transport and manufacturing company, conducted a Falcon 9 launch at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Liftoff was targeted for 7:09 p.m. Mountain Time Friday, Jan. 2. The aerospace mission was for the Italian Space Agency and the Italian Ministry of Defence. The goal was to take a near two-ton satellite to space for Italy.The satellite will be used for both military and civilian use.Stay updated on the latest news with the KOAT app. You can download it here.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>People across New Mexico are asking themselves, what bright light was spotted in the sky?<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX, a private American aerospace transport and manufacturing company, conducted a Falcon 9 launch at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Liftoff was targeted for 7:09 p.m. Mountain Time Friday, Jan. 2. <\/p>\n<p>The aerospace mission was for the Italian Space Agency and the Italian Ministry of Defence. The goal was to take a near two-ton satellite to space for Italy.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite will be used for both military and civilian use.<\/p>\n<p>Stay updated on the latest news with the KOAT app. You can download it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koat.com\/apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People across New Mexico are asking themselves, what bright light was spotted in the sky?SpaceX, a private American&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[2356,13296,13530,40666,187397,6801,33906,24022,187399,187398,3828,3590,187396,79,193,187395,19157],"class_list":["post-384863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-california","tag-defence","tag-falcon","tag-goal","tag-italian-ministry","tag-italy","tag-jan","tag-liftoff","tag-manufacturing-company","tag-near-two-ton-satellite","tag-new-mexico","tag-people","tag-private-american-aerospace-transport","tag-science","tag-space","tag-spacex-launch-sighting","tag-vandenberg-space-force-base"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384863","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=384863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}