A Falcon 9 with a brand-new first stage lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California today (Sept. 2) at 11:51 p.m. EDT (8:51 p.m. local time; 0351 GMT on Sept. 3), carrying 24 of the company's Starlink internet satellites toward low Earth orbit (LEO).

Video on the player above shows a previous Falcon 9 rocket launch. BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A Falcon 9 rocket launch is scheduled out of the Vandenberg Space Force Base Tuesday night. The launch is scheduled out of the base in Santa Barbara County from 7:33 p.

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket getting off the ground from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base may be visible in Arizona, especially during a night launch

Original story: In this week's already busy launch calendar, the next rocket waiting to soar is a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set for a tentative Thursday morning liftoff. SpaceX plans to launch the latest batch if its Starlink satellites now no earlier than 8: ...

Then, less than 24 hours later, another Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink 10-11 mission from a nearby launch pad at Kennedy Space Center. This first stage, Booster 1067, subsequently returned and landed on another drone ship, A Shortfall of Gravitas.