{"id":638142,"date":"2026-05-12T08:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/638142\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T08:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:07:07","slug":"spacex-launches-classified-mission-from-vandenberg-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/638142\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches classified mission from Vandenberg on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE (Monday, 7:13 p.m.) &#8211; SpaceX&#8217;s Falcon 9 rocket took off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 7:13 p.m. Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Monday, May 11, at 7:13 p.m., carrying the NROL-172 payload for the National Reconnaissance Office. <\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p>The first stage booster supporting the mission is flying for the second time, having previously launched one Starlink mission. <\/p>\n<p>After stage separation, the booster is expected to land on SpaceX&#8217;s Of Course I Still Love You droneship in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>A <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/launches\/nrol172\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">live webcast<\/a> will begin approximately 10 minutes before liftoff and can be streamed on the SpaceX website and on X at @SpaceX. <\/p>\n<p>If the launch is scrubbed, SpaceX says it has a backup launch opportunity available on Tuesday, May 12, at 3:15 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATE (Monday, 7:13 p.m.) &#8211; SpaceX&#8217;s Falcon 9 rocket took off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 7:13&hellip;\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-638142","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\/638142","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=638142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638142\/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=638142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}