{"id":553259,"date":"2026-03-30T00:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T00:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/553259\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T00:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T00:29:09","slug":"spacex-plans-early-morning-rocket-launch-from-vandenberg-space-force-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/553259\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX plans early morning rocket launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX plans to launch another Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base early Monday morning, March 30.<\/p>\n<p>The 57-minute launch window opens at 3:20 a.m., according to the aerospace company.<\/p>\n<p>A <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/launches\/transporter-16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">livestream<\/a> of the launch is expected to begin about 15 minutes before liftoff.<\/p>\n<p>The rocket\u2019s first stage booster will land on a droneship in the Pacific Ocean about eight minutes after liftoff.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX calls this mission Transporter-16. The rocket will be carrying 119 payloads into orbit, consisting of cubesats, microsats, a reentry vehicle, orbital transfer vehicles, and other hosted payloads.<\/p>\n<p>If Monday\u2019s launch is scrubbed, SpaceX says it has a backup launch window at the same time on Tuesday, March 31.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX has two more Vandenberg launches coming up on its calendar, currently scheduled for April 2 and April 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX plans to launch another Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base early Monday morning, March 30.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-553259","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\/553259","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=553259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}