Rocket successfully boosts secret payload into space from Vandenberg Space Force Base

KCLU | By Lance Orozco

Published April 18, 2022 at 1:16 AM PDT

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully lifts off from the Central Coast Sunday morning carrying a secret payload. — A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully lifts off from the Central Coast Sunday morning, carrying a secret payload.

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Central Coast Sunday morning.

A rocket launched from the Central Coast successfully put a secret U.S. government payload into orbit.

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket into space from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 6:13 a.m. Sunday. Minutes later, the reusable SpaceX booster landed back at the base.

The launch had been originally planned for Friday morning, but was pushed back after some undisclosed technical delays.

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Lance Orozco

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.

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