{"id":704777,"date":"2026-06-15T04:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T04:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/704777\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T04:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T04:08:10","slug":"live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-its-first-falcon-9-rocket-since-nasdaq-debut-spaceflight-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/704777\/","title":{"rendered":"Live coverage: SpaceX to launch its first Falcon 9 rocket since Nasdaq debut \u2013 Spaceflight Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73035\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260326-Vandy-Starlink-File-Photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\"  \/>File photo of a Falcon 9 fueled for launch at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Image: SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is preparing to launch its first Falcon 9 rocket since making its public trading debut on the Nasdaq on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 17-54 mission, launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Monday morning, will add 24 broadband internet satellites to the company\u2019s low Earth orbit constellation.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East is scheduled during a window that opens at 7 a.m. PDT (10 a.m. EDT \/ 1400 UTC). The rocket will fly on a south-southwesterly trajectory upon leaving the pad.<\/p>\n<p>Spaceflight Now will have live coverage beginning about 30 minutes prior to liftoff.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX will launch the Starlink 17-54 mission using the Falcon 9 first stage booster with the tail number B1093. This will be its 14th flight after launching missions, Transporter-14, SDA T1TL-B, SDA T1TL-C, and ten batches of Starlink satellites.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, B1093 will target a landing on the drone ship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You\u2019, positioned in the Pacific Ocean. If successful, this would be the 203rd landing on this vessel and the 624th booster landing for SpaceX.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File photo of a Falcon 9 fueled for launch at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Image: SpaceX.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-704777","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\/704777","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=704777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}