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California Falcon 9 SpaceX Starship The California Post App

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SpaceX ORG · 5× California GPE · 2× Starship ORG · 2× The California Post App ORG · 2× Elon Musks’s PERSON · 1× San Luis Obispo GPE · 1× Santa Barbara GPE · 1× Space.com ORG · 1× Ventura PERSON · 1× the US Space Force ORG · 1×

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Download The California Post App, follow us on social, and subscribe to our newsletters Earlier this month, shares of SpaceX soared over 5% on news the company has a new launch date for Starship — a huge, fully-reusable rocket that’s central to the firm’s business plans.

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🔮 Residents of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura counties may have been awoken by one or more sonic booms Saturday morning — evidence of a mysterious rocket launch by Elon Musks’s SpaceX. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying a USSF-385 mission for the US Space Force launched at 7 a.m. from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Central Coast, Space.com reported.

2026-09-26 · New York Post

Mystery surrounds classified SpaceX rocket launch off California coast · mixed framing

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Residents of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura counties may have been awoken by one or more sonic booms Saturday morning — evidence of a mysterious rocket launch by Elon Musks’s SpaceX. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying a USSF-385 mission for the US Space Force launched at 7 a.m. from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Central Coast, Space.com reported. uncertain

Space.com → awake → Coast

The rocket’s mission, its destination and its activities are reportedly classified. The SpaceX webcast of the launch was cut short, which is typical for national security missions. uncertain

which → classify → missions

The rocket’s booster — a first-stage engine used to give a spacecraft the extra thrust needed to break free from Earth’s gravity and atmosphere — landed back on SpaceX’s drone ship in the Pacific Ocean about eight-and-a-half minutes later. asserted

booster → use → Ocean

The launch marked SpaceX’s third classified Space Force mission from Vandenberg in just 16 days, according to Space.com. uncertain

launch → mark → Space.com

Download The California Post App, follow us on social, and subscribe to our newsletters Falcon 9 rockets launched the USSF-153 and USSF-259 missions from the base on Sept. 10 and Sept. 16, respectively. asserted

rockets → download → Sept.

The Falcon 9 has now been used more than 100 times this year. asserted

Falcon → use → ?

About three-quarters of its missions have been dedicated to building out the company’s satellite internet service, Starlink, which has more than 11,000 low-orbit satellites. asserted

which → dedicate → satellites

Musk’s rocket company has not only been boosting rockets, but also his fortune. asserted

company → boost → rockets

He became the world’s first-ever trillionaire this summer as shares of SpaceX took off in the stock market. asserted

shares → become → market

that → download → plans

A crucial 14th flight for Starship is planned for Monday, according to the company’s website. uncertain

flight → plan → website

The upcoming flight is planned to be the first to send Starship into orbit around Earth. asserted

flight → plan → Earth

Mystery surrounds classified SpaceX rocket launch off California coast

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