{"id":98186,"date":"2025-08-21T01:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T01:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/98186\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T01:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T01:37:10","slug":"spacex-prepares-for-ussf-36-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/98186\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX prepares for USSF-36 mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KENNEDY SPACE CENTER \u2014 SpaceX is planning to launch the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/launches\/ussf36\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">USSF-36 mission<\/a> Thursday evening, the eighth flight of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spaceforce.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/4112259\/x-37b-orbital-test-vehicle-concludes-seventh-successful-mission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">U.S. Space Force&#8217;s X-37 Orbital Test Vehicle<\/a> and third Falcon launch of the spacecraft, which previously launched OTV-5 and OTV-7.<\/p>\n<p>The space company is targeting 11:50 p.m. on Aug. 21 for liftoff of the Falcon 9 from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.<\/p>\n<p>The 45th Weather Squadron is giving a 35% -&gt; 20% of poor liftoff conditions, with the primary concerns being the cumulus cloud rule and anvil cloud rules.<\/p>\n<p>If the launch is scrubbed, a backup opportunity is available at the same time on Friday, Aug. 22.<\/p>\n<p>According to SpaceX, this will be the sixth flight for the first-stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched:<\/p>\n<p>Following the stage separation, the first stage will land on SpaceX\u2019s Landing Zone 2 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, which means those in the surrounding areas may hear a sonic boom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/N13_SPACEX_LANDING_ZONE_0820.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"hashed-image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-hundred\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KENNEDY SPACE CENTER \u2014 SpaceX is planning to launch the USSF-36 mission Thursday evening, the eighth flight of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[2721,66081,66082,2722,34722,8570,2808,66080,3,13677,79,193,7739,624,452,37530],"class_list":["post-98186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-all-markets-rank-everywhere","tag-app-community","tag-app-space","tag-app-top-stories","tag-brevard-county","tag-community-news","tag-florida","tag-new-space-race","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-science","tag-space","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-tampa","tag-top-stories","tag-trending-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98186","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=98186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}