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Planned rocket launch from Central Coast postponed...again.

SpaceX
A Falcon 9 rocket at Vandenberg Space Force Base

Launch now set for Thursday.

A rocket launch set for the Central Coast has been bumped again, this time to Thursday.

SpaceX was planning to launch a Falcon 9 satellite carrying 51 Starlink communications satellites from Vandenberg Force Base Sunday morning. But, the latest storm prompted its postponement.

The launch was originally planned for January 9. The big storm last week forced its cancellation. Then, it was delayed due to technical issues.

There’s no word on the timing of the planned Thursday launch.

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.