{"id":336567,"date":"2025-10-27T18:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/336567\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T18:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:10:10","slug":"vandenbergs-next-mission-spacex-rocket-launch-on-monday-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/336567\/","title":{"rendered":"Vandenberg\u2019s Next Mission: SpaceX Rocket Launch on Monday | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What:<\/strong> Falcon 9 rocket\u00a0at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vandenberg.spaceforce.mil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vandenberg Space Force Base<\/a> in Santa Barbara County.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When: <\/strong>2:12 p.m. Monday with other opportunities through 6:13 p.m. Monday, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SpaceX<\/a>. If needed, the team has backup opportunities during the same time period Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where:<\/strong> Space Launch Complex-4 on South Base.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Landing:<\/strong> The first-stage booster, making its 17th flight, will land on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship positioned in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on Vandenberg SFB\u2019s updated audibility modeling, residents of Santa Barbara, Carpinteria, Ojai, Ventura, and Oxnard may hear a sonic boom approximately 8-10 minutes after launch, with the greatest likelihood of audibility in the Santa Barbara, Carpinteria, and Ojai areas,\u201d Vandenberg officials said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why: <\/strong>Deliver 28 satellites into orbit for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starlink.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Starlink<\/a> constellation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch:<\/strong> A live webcast of the mission is scheduled to begin about five minutes before liftoff at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/launches\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spacex.com\/launches<\/a> and on <a href=\"https:\/\/links-2.govdelivery.com\/CL0\/https:%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FSpaceX%3Futm_medium=email%26utm_source=govdelivery\/1\/0101019494e21328-51551a32-704e-4bc9-95e2-a2608e8704e9-000000\/Mt-yXKBtzIbAB9BR_A2SQf83hEfxdyPPb9_i2J9_C4c=389\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X @SpaceX<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To watch the liftoff in person, the Lompoc Valley has multiple locations offering views of the launch pad. Those include the peak of Harris Grade Road, west of Lompoc\u2019s city limits and around Vandenberg Village, including near the intersection of Moonglow and Stardust roads.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vandenberg launches close to sunset or sunrise can be especially picturesque. If skies are clear, the rocket\u2019s departure might be visible from elsewhere around California and, under certain conditions, other Western states.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What: Falcon 9 rocket\u00a0at Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County. When: 2:12 p.m. Monday with other&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[728,159,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-336567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-local-news","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115447479190062791","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}