{"id":488759,"date":"2026-01-03T05:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/488759\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T05:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:42:09","slug":"spacex-launch-sighting-in-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/488759\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launch sighting in New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPeople across New Mexico are asking themselves, what bright light was spotted in the sky?SpaceX, a private American aerospace transport and manufacturing company, conducted a Falcon 9 launch at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Liftoff was targeted for 7:09 p.m. Mountain Time Friday, Jan. 2. The aerospace mission was for the Italian Space Agency and the Italian Ministry of Defence. The goal was to take a near two-ton satellite to space for Italy.The satellite will be used for both military and civilian use.Stay updated on the latest news with the KOAT app. You can download it here.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

People across New Mexico are asking themselves, what bright light was spotted in the sky?<\/p>\n

SpaceX, a private American aerospace transport and manufacturing company, conducted a Falcon 9 launch at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Liftoff was targeted for 7:09 p.m. Mountain Time Friday, Jan. 2. <\/p>\n

The aerospace mission was for the Italian Space Agency and the Italian Ministry of Defence. The goal was to take a near two-ton satellite to space for Italy.<\/p>\n

The satellite will be used for both military and civilian use.<\/p>\n

Stay updated on the latest news with the KOAT app. You can download it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People across New Mexico are asking themselves, what bright light was spotted in the sky?SpaceX, a private American…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":488760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[276,25911,2532,42155,220552,2219,34873,55880,220554,220553,11198,3546,220551,159,783,220550,67,132,68,7680],"class_list":{"0":"post-488759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-defence","10":"tag-falcon","11":"tag-goal","12":"tag-italian-ministry","13":"tag-italy","14":"tag-jan","15":"tag-liftoff","16":"tag-manufacturing-company","17":"tag-near-two-ton-satellite","18":"tag-new-mexico","19":"tag-people","20":"tag-private-american-aerospace-transport","21":"tag-science","22":"tag-space","23":"tag-spacex-launch-sighting","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-vandenberg-space-force-base"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115829574758729141","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488759","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=488759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}