USSF-366
Success
AUG 16202601:50:45 UTCFalcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg just 38 minutes after another Falcon 9 launched Globalstar satellites from Cape Canaveral. The two flights were the shortest gap SpaceX had ever put between orbital launches, breaking a record it had set in August 2024.
The mission itself was classified, flown for the US Space Force and assessed to carry a batch of Starshield-based satellites into low Earth orbit.
LIFTOFF
AUG 16 202601:50:45 UTC
Success
launched from SLC-4E Vandenberg
aboard Falcon 9 B5 into LEO
Broadcast
Watch how the launch went
Boosters · 2
- 01 Booster 1 Booster 1Landing unconfirmed on drone ship
- 02 Booster 2 B1088.18Landed on drone ship · OCISLY
Payload