When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Watch live! SpaceX to launch Starship megarocket on Flight 7 test mission - YouTube Watch On SpaceX is set to launch the seventh test flight of its Starship megarocket today (Jan. 15), and you can watch the action live. The 400-foot-tall (122 meters) Starship is scheduled to lift off from SpaceX's Starbase site in South Texas today at 5 p.m. EST (2200 GMT; 4 p.m. local Texas time). You can watch the action live here at Space.com courtesy of SpaceX, or directly via the company. Coverage will begin about 35 minutes before launch. The upper stage of SpaceX's Starship megarocket rolls out to the launch pad at the company's Starbase site on Jan. 9, 2025 ahead of a planned Jan. 15 test flight. (Image credit: Elon Musk via X) Starship is the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built. It consists of two stages, both of which are designed to be fully and rapidly reusable: a giant booster called Super Heavy and a 165-foot-tall (50 meters) spacecraft known as Starship, or simply Ship. You may like