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    Another SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Carrying Starlink Satellites Seen Over San Diego

    By Brooke Binkowski,

    2024-06-19
    https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0t80Gt_0tvynyMg00
    The contrail from Tuesday’s SpaceX launch is seen over Del Mar. Photo by Chris Jennewein

    A SpaceX Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base lit up the evening sky Tuesday.

    According to YouTube channel SpaceFlightNowVideo, which carried the launch live, the rocket lifted off at 8:40 p.m. carrying 20 Starlink internet satellites. It was the fifth flight for the first-stage booster.

    SpaceX sent another batch of its Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit, which included another 13 with direct-to-cell capabilities.

    The flight marked the twentieth orbital launch from California in 2024 — so far, said Jon Edwards, vice president of Falcon Launch Vehicles at SpaceX on social media.

    The launch followed the scrub of a planned mission out of Florida for satellite communications company SES due to poor weather.

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