{"id":620638,"date":"2026-05-03T07:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T07:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/620638\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T07:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T07:03:08","slug":"sonic-booms-expected-at-rocket-launch-in-santa-barbara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/620638\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonic booms expected at rocket launch in Santa Barbara"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sonic booms are expected along California\u2019s Central Coast late Saturday as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket into orbit. <\/p>\n

SpaceX said there is a 37-minute launch window for the CAS500-2 mission that opens at 11:59 p.m., with a backup window 24 hours later. The rocket is slated to catapult into low-Earth orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County carrying dozens of satellites. <\/p>\n

Residents of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura counties may hear the booms, depending on weather and other conditions, SpaceX said<\/a>. <\/p>\n

It is the 54th launch of the year for Elon Musk\u2019s commercial rocket company and the 33rd flight for the first-stage booster, which is expected to return to a landing platform at Vandenberg about eight minutes after launch.<\/p>\n

The rocket will be carrying 45 satellites into orbit, but its primary payload is an Earth-observation satellite developed by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, according to Space.com.<\/p>\n

The Korean satellite was supposed to be launched in 2022 with a Soyuz rocket, but the plan was scrapped after Russia\u2019s attack on Ukraine that year, according to the website.<\/p>\n

SpaceX was responsible for most of the 71 rockets launched last year from Vandenberg, one of the world\u2019s busiest spaceports.<\/p>\n

Viewers can watch a live webcast of the launch on SpaceX\u2019s website and on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sonic booms are expected along California\u2019s Central Coast late Saturday as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[268986,8212,268987,76057,15541,14857,33401,237581,18633,6583,79,241959,193,1513,13536,39226,2394],"class_list":["post-620638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-54th-launch","tag-attack","tag-central-coast-late-saturday","tag-dozen","tag-orbit","tag-resident","tag-rocket-launch","tag-san-luis-obispo","tag-santa-barbara","tag-satellite","tag-science","tag-sonic-boom","tag-space","tag-spacex","tag-vandenberg","tag-website","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620638","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=620638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}