How to watch Flight 15

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.

Will it go on time?

A launch date is a "no earlier than" target. Weather, a technical hold, the range or a boat in the hazard area can each stop a count on the day, and the provider then names a new time. We do not publish launch odds we cannot back; here is what we recorded.

• 1 launch has flown from Starbase since we started recording date changes on Aug 29, 2026; 1 of them had the date or time moved at least once after we first recorded it, and 1 slipped by a day or more. That is too few launches to call it a rate.
• Of the 52 launches that have flown from every site we track since we started recording date changes on Aug 29, 2026, 36 (69%) had the date or time moved at least once after we first recorded it, and 9 (17%) slipped by a day or more.