SoCal Residents Warned of Possible Sonic Boom from SpaceX Launch

Residents of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura counties were most likely to hear the booms.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon Endeavour capsule carrying the Crew 8 mission launches from launch pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 3, 2024. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images

Residents in some coastal California counties could hear one or more sonic booms during a scheduled satellite launch and rocket landing May 28 of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, the company warned.

Those living in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura counties were most likely to hear the loud shock wave Tuesday afternoon when the company will launch a satellite using a rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County.