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It's off! SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket from the Central Coast

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket takes off from Vandenberg Space Force Base Tuesday night.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket takes off from Vandenberg Space Force Base Tuesday night.

The Tuesday night launch carried communications satellites into orbit.

You may have seen it, or you may not have, with low clouds and fog in parts of the Tri-Counties.

SpaceX launched a batch of communications satellites from the Central Coast Tuesday night.

Liftoff for the Falcon 9 rocket carrying 26 communication satellites took place as planned at 7:05 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.