If you want to watch the SpaceX Starship Flight 11 launch later today, you’ve come to the right place. You can watch it live as it happens via the YouTube stream below, on the official YouTube channel, or via SpaceX’s website.
Starship Flight 11 is a crucial launch for SpaceX for a number of reasons. Following a trio of explosive failures in early 2025, SpaceX needs Flight 11 to go as well as Flight 10 to continue buoying confidence in Starship ahead of its planned Artemis III mission in 2027. If Starship continues to fail, alternatives are waiting in the wings.
Flight 11 will have a similar profile to Flight 10: a suborbital trajectory launching dummy Starlink next-generation satellites. However, thermal panels have been removed to help emphasize the design, and a new engine configuration will be used during the return burn as the spacecraft looks to splash down in the ocean after deploying its payload. Upgrades include a new “crunch wrap” between thermal tiles to seal gaps.
This will be the last Starship Block 2 rocket ever flown, with SpaceX planning to move forward with its Block 3 design in 2026 and, eventually, its Block 4 design. Each redesign substantially increases potential orbital payloads to streamline the in-orbit refuelling Starship will require for lunar and deep space missions.
SpaceX has developed a new pad for future Block 3 designs, so this will also be the last launch from the first launch pad and ring. It will also reuse the Super Heavy booster 15.
Coverage of today’s launch should start around 30 minutes before liftoff.