SpaceX Launches 2 Rockets 38 Minutes Apart -- New Record! Sticks Landings [9:19]

YouTube ^ | August 16, 2026 | VideoFromSpace

[SunkenCiv]

SpaceX launched eight satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO) for Louisiana-based telecom company Globalstar from Florida, as well as the USSF-366 mission for the U.S. Space Force from California, on Aug. 15, 2026. [Full Story on Space.com] 

The two rockets launched just 38 minutes apart, breaking SpaceX’s previous record -- set on Aug. 31, 2024, with two Starlink missions -- by 27 minutes. 

Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: SpaceX | edited by Steve Spaleta ( / spaleta_space_odyssey ) 

SpaceX Launches 2 Rockets 38 Minutes Apart -- New Record! Sticks Landings | 9:19 
VideoFromSpace | 2.14M subscribers | 7,146 views | August 16, 2026

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: elonmusk; falcon9; spacex; videofromspace

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

[singing] 🚀🚀🚀, you can still rocket, America.

[albie]

That’ll help the Space X stock, which has been falling

[zeestephen]

LOL...

Will Smith and "I, Robot" are on AMC Cable as I write this!

As usual - the Robots are more interesting than Will Smith.

[Jeff Chandler]

SpaceX launched one Falcon 9 from Florida and another from California. The Florida booster landed back at Cape Canaveral, while the California booster landed on a droneship in the Pacific.

[SunkenCiv]

This week at Starbase SpaceX finishes stacking one booster and quickly moves on to the next, work continues on the redesign of Pad 1 at Starbase and in Florida, plans are announced for a new testing facility. 

New Starship Testing Facility Revealed In Florida! | 5:35 
Avid Space | 251K subscribers | 9,651 views | August 16, 2026

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