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Twilight show: SpaceX rocket launch from Central Coast seen in much of the western United States

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was launched from the Central Coast Monday night.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was launched from the Central Coast Monday night.

25 communications satellites launched into orbit.

It was a rocket launch seen in much of the western Unted States.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base Monday night.

The 7:49 p.m. liftoff carried 25 Starlink communications satellites into orbit.

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.