{"id":619317,"date":"2026-05-02T13:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/619317\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T13:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:48:10","slug":"spacex-targets-late-night-saturday-launch-from-vandenberg-sonic-boom-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/619317\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX targets late-night Saturday launch from Vandenberg; sonic boom expected"},"content":{"rendered":"

SpaceX\u00a0is\u00a0set\u00a0to\u00a0launch\u00a0the\u00a0CAS500-2\u00a0mission\u00a0from\u00a0Vandenberg\u00a0Space\u00a0Force\u00a0Base this weekend.<\/p>\n

The 37-minute launch window opens at 11:59 p.m. on Saturday, May 2. <\/p>\n

The Falcon 9 rocket will lift off from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base. About eight minutes later, Falcon 9’s first stage will return to Earth, landing at SpaceX’s Landing Zone 4 at the base.<\/p>\n

People in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura counties may hear one or more sonic booms during the landing. <\/p>\n

SpaceX’s live webcast of the launch will begin approximately 15 minutes before liftoff at spacex.com\/launches<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The mission will deliver an Earth-imaging satellite for the Korean Aerospace Research Institute into orbit, along with more than 40 other payloads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u00a0is\u00a0set\u00a0to\u00a0launch\u00a0the\u00a0CAS500-2\u00a0mission\u00a0from\u00a0Vandenberg\u00a0Space\u00a0Force\u00a0Base this weekend. The 37-minute launch window opens at 11:59 p.m. on Saturday, May 2. The Falcon 9…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-619317","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\/619317","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=619317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}