SpaceX Falcon 9 sonic boom rattles Central Florida

Orlando, Fla. — SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket rattled residents across Central Florida as it successfully returned to Cape Canaveral for a rare ground landing.

The booster rocket’s landing set off a series of sonic booms that could be heard from the Space Coast ALL the way to inland parts of Orange, Seminole and Osceola Counties.

This was only the second time the Falcon 9 has touched down at Landing Zone 1 this year.

The rocket carried a Argentinian satellite into Earth’s polar orbit, something usually done with a launch from California.

On Thursday morning, another Falcon 9 is set to lift off from the Cape, however, this one is landing on one of SpaceX’s pre-positioned drone ships in the Atlantic.

The company is targeting 8:46 a.m. Thursday for its next Starlink mission.

The mission was postponed Sunday and Tuesday “due to bad weather during preflight operations.”

Cox Media Group