How to watch Flight 9

Watch online

• Watch on SpaceX.com
• Watch on X (@SpaceX)
• Countdown and stream on SpaceNexus
• Everything live now

Watch in person

Straight-line distance from each place to the Starbase pad we use for geometry; what you can see follows from the distance. The public viewing spots, fees and road closures are in the Starbase viewing guide.

• South Padre Island8 mi (13 km), look S

  Full view of the pad and ascent. The sound of liftoff reaches you about 38 seconds after you see it.

• San Antonio & Austin251 mi (403 km), look SSE

  Not visible from here, but the drive is worth it.

• Houston282 mi (454 km), look SSW

  Not visible from here, but the drive is worth it.

• Cameron County: Boca Chica and Highway 4 closures

Plan a trip: every Starbase launch in your dates

What to expect

• We have not checked this mission's landing plan by hand. If a booster flies back to a landing zone on land, its landing brings a sonic boom; the provider's mission page says where the booster lands.
• Sound travels about a kilometre every 3 seconds (a mile every 5), so at a distance you see liftoff before you hear it.