{"id":748980,"date":"2026-07-07T18:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/748980\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T18:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:36:15","slug":"update-spacex-launches-falcon-9-rocket-early-tuesday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/748980\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket early Tuesday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE (July 7, 12:12 a.m.) &#8211; SpaceX successfully launches Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base at approximately 12:12 a.m. Tuesday, July 7.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is getting ready to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base. The 95-minute launch window will open at 12:10 a.m. on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/launches\/transporter17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">livestream<\/a> of the launch is expected to begin about 15 minutes before liftoff.<\/p>\n<p>The rocket will launch the Transporter-17 mission into low-Earth orbit. SpaceX officials say Transporter-17 is a dedicated smallsat rideshare mission.<\/p>\n<p>There will be 81 payloads on the flight, including cubesats, microsats. hosted payloads, and orbital transfer vehicles carrying eight of those payloads to be deployed at a later time.<\/p>\n<p>Following stage separation, the first stage booster is expected to land on a droneship in the Pacific Ocean. No sonic boom is expected to be heard locally.<\/p>\n<p>If the launch does not liftoff Tuesday, SpaceX will try again on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATE (July 7, 12:12 a.m.) &#8211; SpaceX successfully launches Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base at&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-748980","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\/748980","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=748980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748980\/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=748980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}