{"id":867847,"date":"2026-10-02T04:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T04:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/867847\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T04:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T04:16:16","slug":"spacexs-transporter-18-mission-could-bring-sonic-booms-to-central-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/867847\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s Transporter-18 Mission could bring sonic booms to Central Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s Transporter-18 Mission could bring sonic booms to Central Coast<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1790914576_16_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Default author avatar\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. \u2014<\/p>\n<p>This content is imported from x. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">People near Vandenberg Space Force Base may hear sonic booms Thursday following SpaceX\u2019s latest launch.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The Transporter-18 mission is expected to launch just after 11:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">If the launch does not happen Thursday, crews will try again Friday at the same time.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Following stage separation, the Falcon 9 rocket\u2019s first-stage booster is set to land at Vandenberg\u2019s Landing Zone 4.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">The booster\u2019s re-entry is expected to produce sonic booms.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">According to Vandenberg, &#8220;Transporter-18 is a dedicated small satellite rideshare mission carrying 130 payloads to low-Earth orbit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">A live webcast of the mission will be available on SpaceX\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/launches\/transporter18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">website<\/a> and on X, @SpaceX, beginning about 15 minutes before liftoff.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">Vandenberg has supported more than 60 West Coast launches, many of them from SpaceX, so far this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s Transporter-18 Mission could bring sonic booms to Central Coast VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. \u2014 This content&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-867847","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\/867847","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=867847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}