About 10 days since the last West Coast launch, Arizona residents have another chance to see a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soaring overhead.
The commercial spaceflight company’s two-stage Falcon 9 rocket is preparing to get off the ground on a government-contracted mission from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in Southern California.
The launch, scheduled for the weekend, would be the first in California since a federal curfew went into effect restricting commercial launches to between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. local time. Though the mandate was meant to ease the strain of the since-ended government shutdown, it still remains in effect under an updated Nov. 12 order from the Federal Aviation Administration…