{"id":9841,"date":"2026-10-13T18:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T18:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/2026\/10\/13\/transporter-18-smallsats-encapsulation\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T18:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T18:00:05","slug":"transporter-18-smallsats-encapsulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/2026\/10\/13\/transporter-18-smallsats-encapsulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Transporter-18 SmallSats Encapsulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ksc-20261001-ph-spx01-0001orig.jpg\" alt=\"Transporter-18 SmallSats Encapsulation\"><\/p>\n<p>Three NASA-supported small spacecraft, shown along with many commercial payloads, before being encapsulated in a SpaceX Falcon 9. The rocket launched the payloads into low-Earth orbit at 11:32 a.m. PDT Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026, as part of the company\u2019s Transporter-18 mission from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three NASA-supported small spacecraft, shown along with many commercial payloads, before being encapsulated in a SpaceX Falcon 9. The rocket launched the payloads into low-Earth orbit at 11:32 a.m. PDT Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026, as part of the company\u2019s Transporter-18 mission from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-9841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day","tag-nasa-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}