{"id":9859,"date":"2025-05-04T01:05:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T17:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-puts-vandenberg-launch-on-hold\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T01:05:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T17:05:26","slug":"spacex-puts-vandenberg-launch-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-puts-vandenberg-launch-on-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX puts Vandenberg launch on hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_65369\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65369\" style=\"width: 876px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65369\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20240214_Starlink_7-14_prelaunch_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20240214_Starlink_7-14_prelaunch_small.jpg 876w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20240214_Starlink_7-14_prelaunch_small-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20240214_Starlink_7-14_prelaunch_small-678x452.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/20240214_Starlink_7-14_prelaunch_small-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-65369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands ready to launch the Starlink 7-14 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Image: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Update May 3, 9 p.m. EDT: SpaceX has put this launch on hold and no new launch date has been announced<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Original story:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is preparing for its third Falcon 9 launch of the month, which will send 26 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit. SpaceX decided to forgo its launch opportunity on Saturday, but didn\u2019t announce a reason for the scrub.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 15-3 mission will fly a south-easterly trajectory when it takes off from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base. Liftoff is targeting Sunday, May 4, at 10:59 a.m. PDT (1:59 p.m. EDT, 1759 UTC).<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX will use the Falcon 9 first stage booster, tail number 1081, to launch this mission. It will launch for a 14th time after previously flying Crew-7, CRS-29, two Transporter rideshare missions and NASA\u2019s PACE spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, B1081 will target a landing on the SpaceX droneship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You.\u2019 If successful, this will be the 128th booster landing on that vessel and the 441st booster landing to date.<\/p>\n<p>Those on in the Southwest part of the United States will likely see far more Falcon 9 rocket launches this year compared to years past. In March, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) accepted the Final Environmental Assessment (EA) from the Department of the Air Force to allow SpaceX to increase the number of launches from SLC-4E from 36 up to 50.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands ready to launch the Starlink 7-14 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Image: SpaceX Update May 3, 9 p.m. EDT: SpaceX has put this launch on hold and no new launch date has been announced Original story: SpaceX is preparing for its third Falcon 9 launch of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[479,316,440,1115],"class_list":["post-9859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-falcon-9","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-starlink-15-3"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}