{"id":783122,"date":"2026-07-25T04:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T04:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/783122\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T04:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T04:38:09","slug":"spacex-planning-saturday-morning-launch-from-vandenberg-space-force-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/783122\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX planning Saturday morning launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX is gearing up for an early weekend launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base.<\/p>\n<p>A Falcon 9 carrying\u00a024 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit is set for liftoff at 7 a.m. Saturday, the start of the four-hour launch window, from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E).<\/p>\n<p>Following stage separation, the booster, which has been used 7 previous times, primarily on Starlink missions, is expected to land on a droneship in the Pacific Ocean. No sonic boom is expected to be heard locally.<\/p>\n<p>A live webcast of the launch, which is expected to begin approximately 10 minutes before liftoff, will be up on <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/launches\/sl-17-51\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SpaceX.com<\/a> and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X @SpaceX<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The launch will mark the 51st overall launch from Vandenberg so far this year.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX is gearing up for an early weekend launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base. A Falcon 9 carrying\u00a024&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-783122","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\/783122","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=783122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783122\/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=783122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}