SpaceX Rockets Zoom Up Super Fast!
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    SpaceX Rockets Zoom Up Super Fast!

    1 min readAug 21, 2026•Photo by SpaceX on Unsplash
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    SpaceX just did something amazing! The company that builds rockets sent two rockets into space in one night. And they did it super fast!

    On August 15, the first rocket blasted off from Florida. A rocket is a machine that flies up to space. Just 38 minutes later, a second rocket took off from the same place. That is faster than ever before!

    The first rocket carried eight satellites for a company called Globalstar. Satellites are machines that circle around Earth high in the sky. They help phones and computers talk to each other. The second rocket carried equipment for the U.S. Space Force.

    SpaceX has been very busy this year. They have already launched 93 rockets in 2026! Many of these rockets carry Starlink satellites. These special satellites help bring internet to places that do not have it.

    The rockets can even come back and land after they launch. That means SpaceX can use them again and again. Pretty cool!

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