{"id":767232,"date":"2026-07-16T23:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T23:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/767232\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T23:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T23:38:08","slug":"spacex-launches-military-satellite-mission-from-vandenberg-space-force-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/767232\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches military satellite mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX launched a rocket carrying the Space Development Agency&#8217;s Tranche 1 Transport Layer E mission into orbit Thursday afternoon from Vandenberg Space Force Base.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 1:32 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p>After the rocket separated from its first stage booster, the booster returned to Earth, landing on a droneship in the Pacific Ocean. <\/p>\n<p>The Space Development Agency&#8217;s Tranche missions are building a constellation of satellites for U.S. military communications. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX launched a rocket carrying the Space Development Agency&#8217;s Tranche 1 Transport Layer E mission into orbit Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-767232","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\/767232","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=767232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}