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Postponed Central Coast rocket launch rescheduled

A view of the fuselage of a rocket ascending from a launchpad.
SpaceX
The view of the Central Coast from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket taking off from Vandenberg Space Force Base.

The SpaceX Falcon 9 launch is now set for Monday night.

A rocket liftoff originally set for Saturday night on the Central Coast is now planned for Monday night.

SpaceX is set to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base during a four-hour launch window that opens at 7:05 p.m. The rocket’s payload will consist of 24 communications satellites.

There’s no word on what led to Saturday night’s launch postponement. The reusable first stage booster is set to land 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.