Finally, the day has arrived. SpaceX is conducting Flight 7 Starship 7 at Starbase Texas. You can watch the live stream of the historic event below.
We are posting live updates as major events happen from liftoff to Starlink simulator deployments space and possible landing catch of the Flight 7 Super Heavy Booster 14.
Watch Starship Flight 7 Live Stream (Official stream on X)
Live Stream (YouTube)
Flight Test Events (Archived Live Updates)
- Flight 7 Starship is fully stacked on Starbase launch pad A (OLM) at Starbase, Texas
- T- 2 mins remaining in IFT-7 launch
- There are no apparent issues hindering the launch
- Successful liftoff
- 33 out of 33 Booster 14 engines ignited
- Most engines cut off
- Hot-stage confirmed
- Hot-stage ring jettisoned
- The landing catch of Booster 14 is still positive
- T+ 5 mins into the flight have been completed
- Starship upper stage trajectory is nominal
- Flight 7 booster is on its path back to Earth
- Successful landing catch of the Flight 7 booster confirmed (~T+ 7 minutes)
- Communications lost with the upper stage Flight 7 Starship (Ship 33)
- T+ 14 mins into the flight, still no communications with the ship
- Ship 33 was the first 2nd generation Starship V2 (no communcations at T+ 16 mins)
- SpaceX is trying to confirm the reason for Starship’s communication loss
- SpaceX confirms that they have lost the upper stage Flight 7 Starship (Ship 33)
- The loss of Ship 33 is still going to give SpaceX data to improve future flights
- SpaceX wraps up the live webcast of Starship Flight 7 from Starbase, Texas
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