SpaceX's Starship megarocket is the world's biggest and most powerful rocket, and the giant booster that will launch the moon lander for NASA's Artemi

SpaceX Starship Flight 7 launch: Live updates

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2025-01-16 21:00:02

SpaceX's Starship megarocket is the world's biggest and most powerful rocket, and the giant booster that will launch the moon lander for NASA's Artemis 3 mission that aims to land astronauts on the moon by 2027.

The next Starship launch by SpaceX will be Starship Flight 7 on Monday, Jan. 13, at 5 p.m. EST (2200 GMT). It will test a new version of the Ship and and continued enhancements of Booster while flying a similar profile to that of Flight 5 on Oct. 13, which saw the successful first landing and capture of the Super Heavy booster. It is also expected to include a relight of the Ship engines in space and the first deployment of simulated Starlink satellites.

"All systems and weather are looking good," the company wrote on X on Thursday (Jan. 16) along with a few photos of the rocket. SpaceX is still aiming to launch Starship during a 60-minute launch window that opens at 5 p.m. ET (2200 GMT or 4 p.m. local Texas time) on Thursday, Jan. 16.

Watch Flight Test 7 live here courtesy of SpaceX. The company's livestream should begin about 30 minutes before the launch window opens, at 4:30 p.m. ET (2130 GMT).