SpaceX Launches Batch of Starlink Satellites From California

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a batch of Starlink satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Feb. 25, 2022, in a still from video. SpaceX via AP/Screenshot via The Epoch Times

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif.—A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from California on Friday and carried 50 more satellites into orbit for the Starlink internet constellation.

A SpaceX webcast showed the rocket’s upper stage deploying the satellites a little over an hour after the 9:12 a.m. liftoff from Vandenberg Space Force Base.