SpaceX launched two Falcon 9 rockets 38.5 minutes apart on Saturday night, setting what Space.com described as the shortest interval yet between orbital flights and cutting about 27 minutes from the previous 65-minute record set in August 2024. The first mission lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 9:12 p.m. EDT with eight satellites for Globalstar Inc. (NASDAQ:GSAT), and the second departed Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at roughly 9:50 p.m. EDT carrying USSF-366, a classified mission for the U.S. Space Force. The first rocket had not yet released its payload when the second launch began, and both first-stage boosters were recovered successfully, with the second landing marking SpaceX's 650th Falcon booster recovery, according to Spaceflight Now. The flights were the company's 95th and 96th Falcon 9 launches of 2026. Prediction market (event-betting platform) Kalshi currently assigns roughly a 78% chance that SpaceX exceeds 150 launches again in 2026 and around 34% odds it tops 160, while traders give Starship Flight 14 a 7% chance of launching before Sept. 1 and 84% before Sept. 18.