{"id":468142,"date":"2026-02-14T11:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/468142\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T11:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:46:11","slug":"spacex-plans-saturday-starlink-launch-from-vandenberg-space-force-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/468142\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX plans Saturday Starlink launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX is planning a Valentine\u2019s Day launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base.<\/p>\n<p>The window for the Saturday launch that will send 24 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit is between 2 and 6 p.m. from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E).<\/p>\n<p>The first-stage booster supporting the mission has been used 21 times previously, including on 11 Starlink missions. It\u2019s set to land on a droneship in the Pacific Ocean following stage separation. No sonic boom is expected to be heard locally.<\/p>\n<p>A live webcast of the launch will begin approximately five minutes before liftoff and can be viewed on <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X @SpaceX<\/a> or the X TV app.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH: SpaceX given approval to double rocket launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX given approval to double rocket launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base<\/p>\n<p>The launch marks the 10th launch of the year and the fourth this month for SpaceX from Vandenberg.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX is planning a Valentine\u2019s Day launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base. The window for the Saturday launch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-468142","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\/468142","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=468142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}