Watch live! SpaceX to launch Starship megarocket on Flight 7 test mission – YouTube
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SpaceX is set to launch the seventh test flight of its Starship megarocket on Thursday, January 16, and you’ll be able to watch the action live.
The 400-foot-tall (122-meter) spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from SpaceX’s Starbase site in south Texas on Thursday at 5 p.m. EST (10 p.m. GMT; 4 p.m. Texas local time).
You can watch the action live here on Space.com courtesy of SpaceX, or directly through the company. Coverage will begin approximately 35 minutes before launch.
The upper stage of SpaceX’s Starship megarocket will be deployed to the launch pad at the company’s Starbase site on January 9, 2025, ahead of a test flight scheduled for January 15. (Image credit: Elon Musk via X)
Starship is the largest and most powerful rocket ever built. It consists of two stages, both designed to be fully and quickly reusable: a giant booster called Super Heavy and a 165-foot-tall (50-meter) spacecraft known as Starship, or simply Ship.