{"id":501514,"date":"2026-03-03T16:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/501514\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T16:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:13:07","slug":"overnight-launch-of-unarmed-icbm-planned-at-vandenberg-space-force-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/501514\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight launch of unarmed ICBM planned at Vandenberg Space Force Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base between 11:01 p.m. on Tuesday, March 3, and 5:01 a.m.\u00a0on Wednesday, March 4.<\/p>\n<p>According to Air Force Global Strike Command, the purpose of the ICBM test launch is to validate and verify the effectiveness, readiness and accuracy of the weapon system.<\/p>\n<p>Base officials say this is a routine test and was scheduled years in advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base between&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-501514","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\/501514","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=501514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}