Most people in the Tri-Counties couldn’t see it because of cloud cover, but a rocket carrying more than 70 small payloads took off from the Central Coast Monday afternoon.
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 2:35 p.m.
It’s what’s known as a rideshare mission, carrying a craft which deployed 72 small payloads.
The reusable first stage booster landed safely after completing its part of the mission. But, unlike most flights where it lands on a barge off the coast of Baja California, it landed back at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
