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SpaceX launch from Central Coast set for Sunday bumped to Monday night

The view of the Central and South Coasts from a SpaceX rocket launch at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
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The view back at the Central and South Coasts from a SpaceX rocket launch at Vandenberg Space Force Base Friday.

Launch now planned for 6:06 p.m.

You may be able to get a good view of a rocket launch set to take place from the Central Coast.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base originally planned for Sunday afternoon was bumped to 3:46 p.m. Monday, and then again to 6:06 p.m. The payload is 23 communications satellites.

SpaceX officials say depending on atmospheric conditions, sonic booms from the launch may be heard in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura Counties.

The reusable first stage booster is set to land on a barge off the West Coast. During launches when the booster lands back at the base, that can also generate sonic booms.

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.