SpaceX, which has long deployed its Starlink satellites from Florida, is increasingly launching the missions from California. There's a good reason.

SpaceX successfully launched 24 new Starlink satellites into orbit, further expanding its rapidly growing satellite network. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 8:52 p.

Two NASA satellites rocketed into orbit from California Wednesday, commencing a $170 million mission to study a phenomenon of space physics that has eluded researchers since the dawn of the Space Age.