{"id":769844,"date":"2026-05-03T06:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T06:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/769844\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T06:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T06:15:16","slug":"sonic-booms-expected-at-rocket-launch-in-santa-barbara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/769844\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonic booms expected at rocket launch in Santa Barbara"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sonic booms are expected  along California\u2019s Central Coast late Saturday as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket into orbit. <\/p>\n<p>SpaceX said there is a 37-minute launch window for the CAS500-2 mission that opens at 11:59 p.m., with a backup window 24 hours later. The rocket is slated to catapult into low-Earth orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County carrying dozens of satellites. <\/p>\n<p>Residents of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura counties may hear the booms, depending on weather and other conditions, <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/late-night-spacex-launch-could-bring-sonic-booms-to-california-coast\/#:~:text=SpaceX%20said%20residents%20in%20Santa,intensity%20and%20reach%20can%20vary.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SpaceX said<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>It is the 54th launch of the year for Elon Musk\u2019s commercial rocket company and the 33rd flight for the first-stage booster, which is expected to return to a landing platform at Vandenberg about eight minutes after launch.<\/p>\n<p>The rocket will be carrying 45 satellites into orbit, but its primary payload is an Earth-observation satellite developed by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, according to Space.com.<\/p>\n<p>The Korean satellite was supposed to be launched in 2022 with a Soyuz rocket, but the plan was scrapped after Russia\u2019s attack on Ukraine that year, according to the website.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX was responsible for most of the 71 rockets launched last year from Vandenberg, one of the world\u2019s busiest spaceports.<\/p>\n<p>Viewers can watch a live webcast of the launch on SpaceX\u2019s website and on <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.x.com\/spacex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sonic booms are expected along California\u2019s Central Coast late Saturday as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":743930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[315660,8991,315661,28712,9549,11449,11097,257811,31399,21968,159,283939,783,2527,67,132,68,2528,42897,1628],"class_list":{"0":"post-769844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-54th-launch","9":"tag-attack","10":"tag-central-coast-late-saturday","11":"tag-dozen","12":"tag-orbit","13":"tag-resident","14":"tag-rocket-launch","15":"tag-san-luis-obispo","16":"tag-santa-barbara","17":"tag-satellite","18":"tag-science","19":"tag-sonic-boom","20":"tag-space","21":"tag-spacex","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-vandenberg","26":"tag-website","27":"tag-year"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116509181860359312","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769844","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=769844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}