It's off! Rocket boosts satellites into orbit

KCLU | By Lance Orozco

Published March 11, 2024 at 12:35 AM PDT

A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base with 23 satellites on board Sunday night.

Sunday night launch visible in much of Tri-Counties.

It was quite the sight for some people on the Central and South Coasts.

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Santa Barbara County’s Vandenberg Space Force Base Sunday night. A Falcon 9 rocket carried 23 communications satellites into orbit.

After the 9:09 p.m. launch, the reusable first stage booster landed on a barge off the West Coast. It was the 17^th flight for the booster.

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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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