How to Watch SpaceX Starship Flight 7 [LIVE]

SpaceX will launch Starship Flight Test 7 on January 16 at 4:00 pm CT during a 60-minute launch window and here is how to watch it live from your comfort zone to catch the exciting event.

Starship is an integrated launch vehicle consisting of a booster and a ship. The booster consists of 33 Raptor engines, which lift the integrated vehicle off the launch pad and take it to space. After hot-staging the booster returns to Earth and the second stage starts its six Raptor engines to continue the mission into orbit.

Starship Flight 7 aims to catch the booster for the second time and do a more intensive reentry heat test with next-generation Starship featuring new improvements. The launch time will enable the SpaceX team to get a sunrise landing and splashdown view in the Indian Ocean.

Data collected with this flight will help the team to make new designs and technological upgrades to prepare the ship for a vertical landing on the launch site.

How to watch Starship Flight 7

You can tune into this launch event via social media site X with the link below.

Here is the targeted launch time for different countries:

• Germany – 11:00 p.m.
• Japan – 7:00 a.m.
• China – 6:00 a.m.
• India – 3:30 a.m.
• Saudi Arabia – 1:00 a.m.

SpaceX Starship Flight 7

Flight Test Timeline – Mission time on the left and mission milestone on the right.

• 00:00:02 – Liftoff
• 00:01:02 – Max Q (moment of peak aerodynamic stress on the rocket)
• 00:02:32 – Super Heavy MECO (most engines cut off)
• 00:02:40 – Hot-staging (Starship Raptor ignition and stage separation)
• 00:02:46 – Super Heavy boostback burn startup
• 00:03:30 – Super Heavy boostback burn shutdown
• 00:03:32 – Hot-stage jettison
• 00:06:26 – Super Heavy is transonic
• 00:06:35 – Super Heavy landing burn start
• 00:06:55 – Super Heavy landing burn shutdown and catch
• 00:08:53 – Starship engine cutoff
• 00:17:33 – Payload deploy demo
• 00:37:33 – Raptor in-space relight demo
• 00:47:25 – Starship entry
• 01:03:12 – Starship is transonic
• 01:04:26 – Starship is subsonic
• 01:06:12 – Landing flip
• 01:06:18 – Landing burn
• 01:06:38 – Splashdown and landing

Note – The launch is now postponed from January 15 to January 16. The new date and launch window is updated above.