{"id":821726,"date":"2026-08-22T04:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T04:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/821726\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T04:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T04:40:11","slug":"spacex-launch-scheduled-for-early-saturday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/821726\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launch scheduled for early Saturday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX is preparing to launch 27 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket early Saturday, August 22 from Vandenberg Space Force Base.<\/p>\n<p>The launch is expected to happen around 12:30 a.m. Saturday, with a launch window extending into the early morning hours.<\/p>\n<p>The mission will deploy another batch of Starlink satellites as SpaceX continues expanding its global satellite-internet constellation.<\/p>\n<p>A <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/launches\/sl-17-49\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">live webcast<\/a> of the mission began about 10 minutes before liftoff on SpaceX&#8217;s website and on X at @SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the ninth flight for the Falcon 9 first-stage booster supporting the mission. The booster has previously launched NROL-105 and seven Starlink missions.<\/p>\n<p>Following stage separation, SpaceX will attempt to land the booster on the autonomous droneship Of Course I Still Love You, stationed in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX is preparing to launch 27 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket early Saturday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-821726","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\/821726","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=821726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}