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They're off! Two satellites from Norway launched from Central Coast

SpaceX

Launch visible throughout much of the Tri-Counties.

Maybe you saw it! SpaceX launched a pair of satellites from the Central Coast Sunday night.

The 7:02 p.m. launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base carried satellites for the company Space Norway. The satellites included payload for the Norwegian Armed Force, the U.S. Space Force and a commercial satellite operator.

It’s the first time a U.S. military payload was hosted by a non-American satellite.

After the liftoff, the reusable first stage booster landed successfully 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.