A SpaceX launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base caught the attention of many as it was seen across Southern California Friday morning.

A batch of Starlink internet satellites were deployed Friday in an early morning SpaceX rocket launch from the Santa Barbara County coast. The Falcon 9 launch shortly after 6 a.m. from Vandenberg Space Force Base ushered 23 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit.

On Jan. 14 of this year, Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by SpaceX against the California

Residents across Southern California were dazzled by a SpaceX launch that briefly illuminated the skyline, early Thursday morning.

People were buzzing Friday morning about a mysterious light across the early morning California sky. It turned out not to be a mystery at all but a SpaceX rocket launch from Vanderberg Space Force base near Santa Barbara.

SpaceX plans to launch 23 more of its Starlink internet satellites from California's central coast today (Jan. 24).

SpaceX is preparing to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Monday afternoon that will carry internet-beaming Starlink satellites into orbit.

ORLANDO, Fla. — A California-based startup led by former SpaceX executives announced Jan. 29 it has raised $100 million to accelerate development of lower-cost hypersonic missiles, marking Silicon Valley’s latest push into the defense sector traditionally dominated by established contractors.

SpaceX on Wednesday night launched a Spanish communications satellite from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and retired the first-stage booster rather than landing on a drone.

At the crack of dawn Friday, Shell Beach resident Erik Olson stood on his balcony to catch a glimpse of a scheduled rocket launch from the Vandenberg Space Force Base as it painted the sky above San Luis Obispo County. Olson follows all the rocket activity from Vandenberg, but said this morning’s launch was “particularly impressive.”

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base created a spectacle in the skies above Southern California Friday morning. This video aired on the KTLA Morning News on Jan. 24, 2024.

Several other space companies have plans to construct their own space stations as well, including Northrop Grumman, Axiom Space, Nanoracks and Sierra Space. NASA needs at least one of them on orbit before the ISS is decommissioned, and all of them are counting on market demand to make it there.