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Twilight rocket launch time bumped back on Central Coast

A March 18th SpaceX launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base
Lance Orozco
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KCLU
A March 18th SpaceX launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base

SpaceX rocket has payload of 20 communications satellites.

We could see a spectacular sight Wednesday night, with a rocket launch set for the Central Coast.

SpaceX is planning to launch 20 Starlink communications satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base. The launch was set for 7:48 p.m., but it was later pushed to 8:50 p.m. It could be visible for hundreds of miles. Past twilight and night launches have been seen as far away as Arizona.

The launch window extends until 10:30 Wednesday night.

Plans call for the reusable first stage booster to land on a barge off the West Coast.

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.