After two unsuccessful efforts due to adverse weather, tech entrepreneur Elon Musk’s space agency, SpaceX, launched another Falcon 9 rocket into space on Monday.
The night sky above Southern California was illuminated when the Falcon 9, carrying 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit, took launch from the Vandenberg Space Force Base.
The rocket launched at the scheduled time of 7:30 p.m., according to KTLA, and was visible over Southern California.
The launch on Monday, according to officials, was the fifteenth flight of the Flacon 9 first-stage booster rocket. This includes eight more Starlink missions and multiple missions for the US Space Development Agency.
The Falcon 9 rocket made a successful separation from its cargo and touched down in the Pacific Ocean on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You.
In the meantime, the upper stage will keep hauling in order to bring the 22 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO), where they will be deployed around sixty-two minutes following launch, according to Space.
