New record! SpaceX launches 2 Falcon 9 rockets just 38 minutes apart (video)

SpaceX keeps setting spaceflight records.

Elon Musk 's company launches far more frequently than any other outfit, and it operates the largest satellite constellation ever assembled — the Starlink broadband network, which consists of nearly 11,000 satellites (and counting).

On Saturday evening (Aug.

15), SpaceX set another mark, for the shortest time between orbital flights: It launched two Falcon 9 rockets just 38 minutes apart, besting its old mark — set on Aug.

31, 2024 with two Starlink missions — by 27 minutes.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches eight satellites for the telecom company Globalstar from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Aug.

15, 2026. (Image credit: SpaceX) The first liftoff, from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station , occurred Saturday at 9:12 p.m.

EDT (0112 GMT on Aug.

16) and carried eight satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO) for Louisiana-based telecom company Globalstar.

All eight spacecraft were deployed successfully, separating over a six-minute span beginning 56.5 minutes after liftoff, SpaceX announced via social media.

While that Falcon 9 was powering its way to LEO, another one launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base , on California's central coast.

That liftoff, at 9:50 p.m.

EDT (6:50 p.m. local time; 0150 GMT on Aug.

16), kicked off a mission for the U.S.