SpaceX Starship Flight 13 | Countdown To Launch | Live feed

YouTube ^ | July 16, 2026 | The Launch Pad

[SunkenCiv]

[9 hours and change to go!] LIVE Countdown To Launch Coverage of SpaceX's 13th Starship Flight Test; the second flight of Starship v3 and from Pad B. 

SpaceX Starship Flight 13 
Countdown To Launch | Live feed 
The Launch Pad | 360 watching now 
July 16, 2026 | Started streaming 21 hours ago

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Travel
KEYWORDS: elonmusk; flight13; spacex; starlink; starship; thelaunchpad

[SunkenCiv]

The Launch Pad has two feeds for this, the first one is the one that's actually live.

[SunkenCiv]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beKsuJUsiWk ( “upcoming”)
https://www.youtube.com/@TheLaunchPad/streams

The rest of the usual streams seem to be “upcoming”, e.g.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXHd014xLjQ
https://www.youtube.com/@VideoFromSpace/streams

[Red Badger]

Hope it goes well!...................

[catbertz]

🔥🚀✨👀

[SunkenCiv]

Launch Heaven, also live, no crowd, no waiting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CifUTuuYPp8

[Eli Kopter]

Which launch pad? Is it Canaveral or Texas?

[SunkenCiv]

Me too, but ya gotta admit, doncha kinda miss the really big messy dramatic failures?

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=flight+13+live

Interestingly, when I first loaded the Launch Pad stream it was on the Roku, and it led with two short ads, the first one was from ULA! 😆

[SunkenCiv]

Texas, Boca Chica, Pad B.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCrZdt8wr3I

[singing] Boca Chica, Pad B, Say What, Boca Chica, ooh ooh, ooh, ooh...

[CivilWarBrewing]

IMO, "Everyday Astronaut" has the BEST feed. He is buddies with Elon Musk and carries the live SpaceX feed on his broadcast. Sometimes it's difficult to get into the SpaceX.com website feed when traffic is heavy so I watch Everyday Astronaut on YouTube instead:

Everyday Astronaut SpaceX Flight 13

[Robert A Cook PE]

I wonder if SpaceX will ever find an economic advantage to fly assembled (and tested) Starships or solo boosters from TX to Cape Kennedy?

[citizen]

Doubtful, in the near future.
Rocket fuel & launches are expensive.
Barge fuel and loading is cheap.
Flying is exponentially faster but then the ship or booster has to be inspected & prepped for another flight.

Falcon 9 booster, per GROK:
Average turnaround time for a Falcon 9 booster is now in the range of a few weeks (typically 20–40 days in recent years), with record times as low as 9 days.
Refurbishment/ marginal expense per refly is very low — historically cited around $250,000 to ~$1 million per booster refurbishment. The faster the turnaround, the more the cost.

[Eli Kopter]

Thanks. I like to follow the activity on Flight24.

[Eli Kopter]

Interesting. Right now, there are 4 Military Ranger Helicopters circling Brownsville Intl. Airport and the Launch site. Probably related to the launch, although could be drug related. Big helicopters though.

[PIF]

Another sub orbital mission ... pretty much the same as Flight 1 three years ago.

When will the Starship actually reach orbit, the primary mission of any rocket? Or will it prove just too heavy to do the job that is claimed for it, like the Spruce Goose?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks! Live in four hours.

They got this part down, first try. The launch pad got a little dinged up, like The Dude’s car.

How SpaceX Caught A Rocket From Space!
Everyday Astronaut
729,547 views
October 11, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAPt5vbr-YU

[Yossarian]

While it is frustrating that flight 13 is still sub-orbital, it is not because of weight - at least weight going up.

SpaceX needs to first prove that the new Raptor 3 engine can reliably relight in space. Otherwise the multi-ton Starship might get stuck in an out-of-contol decaying orbit, where it could cause some serious damage on impact.

[citizen]

Starship has a lot more going on than “just trying to get to orbit.”