{"id":322519,"date":"2026-08-16T13:26:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T13:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322519\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T13:26:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T13:26:53","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-did-you-see-it-spacex-launches-two-falcon-9-rockets-minutes-apart-from-fl-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322519\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Did You See It Spacex Launches Two Falcon 9 Rockets Minutes Apart From Fl Ca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A busy night for SpaceX turned into a show for some local skywatchers.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The company launched two Falcon 9 rockets from opposite coasts Saturday night just 38 minutes apart, with some News 12 viewers reporting seeing the flying object streak across the sky.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The first lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 9:12 p.m. ET, carrying the Globalstar 2-R Launch 1 mission to low-Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">At 9:50 p.m. ET, another Falcon 9 launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, carrying the USSF-366 mission.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Florida launch was the 14th flight for that rocket&#8217;s first-stage booster. After separating from the second stage, the booster returned to Cape Canaveral and landed at Landing Zone 40.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The booster used for the California launch was making its 18th flight. Following stage separation, it landed on the SpaceX &#8216;Of Course I Still Love You&#8217; droneship in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A busy night for SpaceX turned into a show for some local skywatchers. The company launched two Falcon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-322519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}