(The Center Square) – SpaceX broke its record Wednesday morning for its number of Falcon 9 launches in a single year.
This year’s 133rd Falcon launch took off, with no problems and a minimum of fanfare, at 7:16 a.m. PDT from Vandenberg Space Force Base in northern Santa Barbara County. Except for a few clouds, skies were clear at the Southern California site just off the Pacific Ocean.
It was a routine launch. Mission control announcers during a spacex.com broadcast, which didn’t have any studio anchors, spoke calmly during the mission deploying 28 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit…