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Up, up and away! Rocket launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base with 27 communications satellites

The view of the Central Coast from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket taking off from Vandenberg Space Force Base Wednesday afternoon.
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The view of the Central Coast from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket taking off from Vandenberg Space Force Base Wednesday afternoon.

It was the 24th flight for the reusable first-stage booster.

Maybe you saw it! A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Central Coast Wednesday afternoon, carrying some communications satellites into orbit.

The rocket took off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 3:11 p.m. It had a payload of 27 Starlink communications satellites.

The reusable first stage booster landed on a barge off the West Coast. It was the 24th flight for the reusable 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.