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Maybe you saw it? Another spectacular twilight rocket launch from the Central Coast

Lance Orozco
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KCLU
SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base Monday night.

SpaceX launches 22 satellites into orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base.

It was another spectacular twilight rocket launch from the Central Coast. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket with a payload of 22 communication satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base Monday night.

It took four tries to get to the launch. Planned launches were cancelled Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights due to the storms which hit the Tri-Counties.

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Cloud cover obscured the launch in parts of the Tri-Counties, but people saw it hundreds of miles away in places like the San Fernando Valley, and even as far away as Arizona.

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.