Witness spaceflight history! 🚀 On August 15, 2026, SpaceX shattered the world record for the fastest turnaround between two orbital launches by a single organization, blasting off two Falcon 9 rockets a staggering 38 minutes apart!
This video covers the entire back-to-back double launch:
1️⃣ Globalstar 2-R lifting off from the Space Coast in Florida.
2️⃣ USSF-366 launching from Vandenberg, California, just 38 minutes later.
3️⃣ The awesome deployment of the Globalstar 2-R payload.
To put into perspective how insane this is: Before SpaceX started racing against its own launch schedule, the previous single-agency record was held by NASA for over 50 years (they launched two rockets 97 minutes apart during the 1966 Gemini 11 mission). SpaceX just smashed its own previous personal best of 65 minutes to pull off this logistical masterpiece. Managing two independent countdowns, clearing airspace on opposite sides of the country, and coordinating two booster landings in under an hour is an incredible feat of aerospace engineering.
(Fun fact: The absolute world record for ANY two launches is 72 seconds, set by a lucky coincidence between Japan and SpaceX in 2017—but for a single company, this 38-minute gap is the undisputed crown).
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