SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base pushed to Friday – KABC-TV
Friday, March 29, 2024 3:49AM
If you look up to the skies Thursday night and see some strange lights streaking across the Southern California sky, rest assured that it’s not a UFO.
VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. (KABC) — SpaceX’s launch of its Falcon 9 rocket has been pushed back.
The launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base was set for Thursday evening, but liftoff is now scheduled for no earlier than 7:30 p.m. Friday, according to the Hawthorne-based company.
The mission will send 22 Starlink internet satellites to low-Earth orbit. The launch will be the 30th Falcon 9 flight so far this year.
After the satellites are deployed, the booster will land on the “Of Course I Still Love You” droneship in the Pacific Ocean.
It was just last week that a similar Falcon 9 launch left a long, trailing plume across the Southern California sky.
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