SpaceX’s Starship Flight 7: Launch Date, Time & Live Feed – SpaceX is testing an updated version of the world’s largest rocket on its first Starship flight for 2025. If you want to view the launch online live, then on January 15, we have it covered for you.
SpaceX will be launching its Starship Flight 7 mission at 5 p.m. EST (2200 GMT) on Wednesday, 15 January, two days behind an initial plan to send the Starship to orbit last Saturday, on the 13th of January. A SpaceX Starship is set to launch from the company’s Starbase facility near Boca Chica Beach in South Texas. It will be the seventh test flight of a SpaceX Starship, but this one will carry its first significantly upgraded rocket. As was the case during the Starship’s return in the fall of last year, the giant Super Heavy booster rocket may return directly from its launch pad and seems to be an adequate test.
Watch SpaceX Starship Flight 7 here on Space.com. Our coverage will begin about 30 minutes before liftoff. More Starship launch news
When does SpaceX Starship Flight 7 Launch?
Space X is now moving the launch of the Starship Flight 7 test flight to Wednesday, Jan. 15, 1700 EST (2200 GMT), when the ship vehicle returns to Earth, over the Indian Ocean during daylight hours. Rocket launch time would be set for 4:00 p.m. local time at the SpaceX Starbase launch site.
On Friday, Jan. 10, SpaceX announced on X that they had completed a fueling test with a fully stacked Starship rocket and Super Heavy booster-the latter towering at nearly 400 feet (122 m) tall, fully assembled. Officially labeled as the world’s tallest and most powerful rocket, this mega-rocket is one behemoth rocket.
Earlier, SpaceX had planned the takeoff of Starship Flight 7 to happen on January 13. Then, it rescinded that on the night of Saturday, January 11.
“Aiming for Wednesday, January 15 for the seventh flight test of Starship,” reads a post on X by SpaceX. However, the new day is no different, in terms of time, for taking off.
Starship and Super Heavy loaded to about 11 million pounds of propellant for a launch rehearsal in advance of the seventh flight test, SpaceX said in its tweet
The following mission undertakes the vital heavy-lift missions of the first payload Starship and launches and recovers the Super Heavy Booster in the subsequent Flight 7 launch.
How to stream Starship Flight 7 launching live
Space.com reports that Space has said that it will launch at 4 pm CT for its seventh flight test of Starship, and further through an email to the press that there will be a live video feed shown about 35 minutes before the launch. The broadcast, the press stated, will be streamed publicly on the website of the spacecraft company for its flight mission, on the X social network, and on the new X TV app.
NASASpaceflight.com will also have a YouTube stream of the launch. The channel streams 24/7 views of SpaceX Starship preparations and operations at SpaceX’s Boca Chica Starbase.
One can view the launch live from any viewing location, either in South Texas or Starbase, but SpaceX has not designated an official viewing site for its test flights of Starship.
Several public beaches can be found immediately around South Padre Island offering an unobstructed view of SpaceX’s Starship pad at Isla Blanca Park and the Cameron County Amphitheater. The alternate view is Port Isabel. Do your homework ahead of time to best pick your viewing location. The traffic gets pretty bad driving into both of these locations so it would be smart to plan on getting here a little bit early. Don’t forget snacks, folding chairs, bug spray, and all the other things you’ll need! How long will SpaceX’s Starship Flight 7 last?
Test Flight Starship Flight 7 of private rocket firm SpaceX will be over a little above 66 minutes, at least according to its flight plan.
Flight 7 Ship enters what could be what was used for Flight 6 Starship launch back in November: that’s a suborbital trajectory that puts Starship over what looks to be re-entering condition above the Indian Ocean west of Australia.
The designers’ team will make the Ship vehicle spend its 10 mock Starlink satellites, some 17 minutes into its flight which takes one hour. It should make the spacecraft perform relit maneuvering with one of its six Raptor engines-just like with Flight 6-37 minutes after liftoff.
“In orbit, Starship will deploy 10 Starlink simulators, the size, and mass comparable to a new generation Starlink satellite in what will be a first use of a satellite deploy mission, the company states in its mission description. Simulated Starlink will be along a suborbital trajectory path paralleling the splashing impact planned in the Indian Ocean.”
South Texas Road and beach closings.
Due to safety issues, Cameron County said that Boca Chica Beach and State Highway 4 between FM 1419 and the entrance of Boca Chica Beach would be closed on Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.
SpaceX and the county would erect a safety zone perimeter along Highway 4. According to a release, after closure, only authorized personnel would be allowed to pass through those checkpoints.
Those who will proceed to the beach on the date of closure are advised to proceed to South Padre Island.
However, any movement to try to make that attempt at recycling of the Starship Flight 7 will still be dependent on refueling which it can do, according to SpaceX, this might only be made before this actual launch. In other words, months back it was said to be proposed for this one as well that would also take as many days, refueling mostly 11 million pounds of liquid methane and liquid oxygen already loaded in propellant needed to launch what is going to be a rocket.
The testing timeline is flexible and fluid as it can be changed during the process of performing all development tests; therefore, visit here not forgetting our X account, for updates, said SpaceX while launching flight 7 for Starship.
