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UPDATE: SpaceX successfully launches Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday

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UPDATE: SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Sunday night.

The Falcon 9 launch took off at 9:09 p.m. and carried 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E).

This is the 17th flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, DART, Transporter-7, Iridium OneWeb, SDA-0B, and 11 Starlink missions. Following stage separation, the first stage succesfully landed on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship stationed in the Pacific Ocean.