HAMPTON ROADS, Va. - Saturday night, many viewers contacted News 3 saying they noticed a bright light across the sky throughout Hampton Roads.
A spokesperson with NASA Langley Research Center said a satellite launched from the Space Force Military base in Cape Canaveral Saturday evening.
SpaceX posted on Twitter about the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket deploying 52 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral. There have been sightings up and down the Eastern seaboard.
Just after 7:30 p.m. Saturday, SpaceX officials also tweeted Falcon 9’s first stage had landed on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship.
NASA Langley was not a part of this launch.
