{"id":508811,"date":"2026-03-07T07:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T07:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/508811\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T07:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T07:34:12","slug":"spacex-set-to-launch-falcon-9-from-vandenberg-sfb-saturday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/508811\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX set to launch Falcon 9 from Vandenberg SFB Saturday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX is targeting Saturday morning for its next Starlink launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9 rocket that will send 25 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit has a launch window of 2:58 a.m. to 6:58 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>As of 12:50 p.m. Friday, SpaceX was showing the countdown ending shortly after 6:30 a.m. from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E).<\/p>\n<p>The first-stage booster supporting the mission has been used six previous times, including on four Starlink missions.<\/p>\n<p>Following stage separation, the booster is expected to land on a droneship in the Pacific Ocean. No sonic boom is expected to be heard locally.<\/p>\n<p>About five minutes before liftoff, a live webcast of the launch will be up on\u00a0<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X @SpaceX<\/a> or the X TV app.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s launch marks the second this month for SpaceX from Vandenberg and the 14th launch from the west coast base for the company this year.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX is targeting Saturday morning for its next Starlink launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base. The Falcon 9&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-508811","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\/508811","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=508811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}