Private space company SpaceX has launched an advanced weather-monitoring satellite for the US Space Force.

The launch was conducted by a Falcon 9 rocket from the Space Launch Complex at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. SpaceX confirmed that the satellite had deployed. The first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket separated and landed on an unmanned surface ship in the Pacific Ocean about eight minutes after launch.

The mission, called USSF-62, will deliver a weather-monitoring satellite into low Earth orbit, enabling new imaging capabilities to collect weather data in low Earth orbit.

Last February, SpaceX also successfully launched NASA's Pace satellite to help monitor the Earth's oceans and atmosphere in the most detailed way ever.

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