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Liftoff! SpaceX launches payload of communications satellites from Central Coast

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The view of the Central Coast from a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 27 communications satellites into orbit Thursday night.

Twenty-seven satellites were carried into orbit by a SpaceX rocket Thursday night.

Maybe you saw it! A SpaceX rocket carried a payload of communications satellites into orbit from the Central Coast Thursday night.

Twenty-seven communications satellites were on board the Falcon 9 rocket.

It lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 6:02 p.m. The reusable first-stage booster landed 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.