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It's off! SpaceX launches a rocket with 20 communications satellites from the Central Coast

A SpaceX rocket lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base Sunday.
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A SpaceX rocket lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base Sunday.

Satellites part of global communications network providing internet and cell phone service to underserved parts of the world.

SpaceX put on a big late night show on the Central Coast with the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket.

The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 9:53 p.m. Sunday night.

It carried 20 Starlink satellites. They are communications satellites which joined a global network providing internet and cell phone service to underserved parts of the world.

The reusable first stage booster successfully landed on a barge off the West Coast. It was the 20th flight for the booster.

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.