SpaceX launches twice in one day! On February 17, witness two Falcon 9 rockets launch nine hours apart.

There are two Falcon 9 rockets flying 9 hours apart on Feb. The two missions will be launched less than nine hours apart. The first flight is scheduled to lift off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base at 2:12 p.m. 

The Starlink internet satellites will be sent skyward on a Falcon 9 rocket. You can watch both launches live here at Space.com, courtesy of the company, or directly via the company. The coverage of the Starlink mission is expected to start about five minutes before liftoff, while the coverage of the I6 F2 mission is expected to start about 15 minutes prior to launch. 

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Both missions will feature landing attempts by the first stages of the Falcon 9 rocket, which will be stationed at sea a few hundred miles from the launch sites. The flight times for the rockets' upper stages will not be the same as for the Starlink satellites. It will provide internet for ships and aircraft in the Atlantic Ocean. The other, I6 F1, launched atop a Japanese H-IIA rocket in December 2021, and currently serves the Indian Ocean region.

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