SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Thursday, Jan. 9.
The launch was scheduled for 7:53 p.m., and took off on-time.
The rocket will deliver a National Reconnaissance Office payload, NROL-153, into orbit.
About eight minutes after the launch, SpaceX landed the rocket's first stage booster on a droneship in the Pacific Ocean. There were no reports of a sonic boom heard locally.
