Orbital Launch Pad 1
SPACEX · STARSHIP AND SUPER HEAVY
The first orbital pad and the one that carries most of the record so far. Every full stack of Starship on Super Heavy through the early orbital campaign lifted off from here.
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SITE STARBASE
25.99°N 97.19°W
PADS 4
RECORDED 22
Starbase is SpaceX's own launch site and factory at Boca Chica on the Gulf coast of Texas, built for one vehicle: Starship on the Super Heavy booster. Launch Library 2 counts 22 flights from this site to date, from the early suborbital hops to the orbital flights. Everything below is written into this page by the server, so it reads the same for people and for machines.
When is the next Starship launch from Starbase?
Every flight currently on the books for this site. Expect this table to be short: Starship flies in test campaigns, not on a schedule, and its dates are usually a quarter or a year rather than a time. Only rows with a clock time have a confirmed liftoff time. A one-line table here means one flight is on the books, not that data is missing.
| LIFTOFF (UTC) | ROCKET · MISSION | PROVIDER | PAD | STATUS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
date not yet set | Starship V3 Flight 14 | SpX | Orbital Launch Pad 2 | TBD |
Last updated 02 Aug 2026 23:00 UTC · 1 upcoming and 12 recent launches from this site.
WHICH ROCKETS LAUNCH FROM STARBASE?
Exactly one vehicle, flown by exactly one operator. Nothing but Starship has ever lifted off from this site, which makes it the only launch site on the T-Rocket map with a single rocket in its entire record. What changes over time is the pad and the version of the vehicle.
Orbital Launch Pad 2
SPACEX · STARSHIP AND SUPER HEAVY
The second orbital pad, newer and now taking flights. The next launch on the books for this site is assigned to it.
Suborbital Pad A and B
SPACEX · STARSHIP PROTOTYPES
The two small pads where the early programme happened: the single-engine hop, then the high-altitude prototypes that flew a few kilometres up and came back down. They belong to the history of the site rather than to its schedule.
WHERE CAN YOU WATCH A STARSHIP LAUNCH?
Starbase is different from every other site on this list in one important way: the public road and the public beach right next to the pads are closed by county order for every flight. So the first thing to understand is not where to go, but where you cannot go.
Boca Chica Beach is closed for every launch. Cameron County orders the
temporary closure of the beach, State Highway 4 and the surrounding streets, including LBJ Boulevard,
Del Mar Boulevard, Richardson Avenue, Quick Silver Avenue, Rio Grande Drive and the Tarpon Haven
roads. SpaceX sets up a safety zone with two checkpoints on Highway 4; once the closure is in force
only authorised people may remain between the soft and hard checkpoints, and nobody may pass the hard
checkpoint towards the beach. Planning to watch from the beach itself does not work.
Isla Blanca Park, South Padre Island
CAMERON COUNTY PARK · 08:00 TO 19:00 PEAK, 08:00 TO 18:00 OFF SEASON
The viewing location named by the South Padre Island visitor bureau, at the southern tip of the island across the bay from the launch site. It is a Cameron County park, and the county publishes those opening hours. Neither source publishes a distance to the pad, so this page does not state one.
Sources: Visit South Padre Island, SpaceX launch page; Cameron County, Isla Blanca Park
Closure schedule and alerts
CAMERON COUNTY · PUBLISHED PER FLIGHT
The county publishes the closure dates and times for Boca Chica Beach and Highway 4 on its own SpaceX page, and offers real-time updates by text message: send the word BEACH to 866-513-3475. A closure order usually names a primary date and one or two alternative dates, because a scrub moves the whole thing to the next slot.
Source: Cameron County, Boca Chica and Highway 4 closures information
Plan for more than one day
VISIT SOUTH PADRE ISLAND
The visitor bureau advises planning a three to four day visit to have a realistic chance of seeing a launch, because delays for weather or technical reasons are normal. For Starship in particular that is sound advice: the dates in the table above are usually placeholders.
Source: Visit South Padre Island, SpaceX launch page
The legal basis for the closures, if you want to look it up: Texas Natural Resources Code section 61.132 and a memorandum of agreement between Cameron County and the Texas General Land Office, plus a roadway closure traffic control plan authorised by the Texas Department of Transportation. The orders are signed by the Cameron County Judge.
Past flights from Starbase
What actually flew, most recent first. This is the full arc of the programme so far, from the first hops on the suborbital pads to the current vehicle.
| LIFTOFF (UTC) | ROCKET · MISSION | PROVIDER | PAD | RESULT |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starship V3 Flight 13 | SpX | Orbital Launch Pad 2 | SUCCESS | |
| Starship V3 Flight 12 | SpX | Orbital Launch Pad 2 | SUCCESS | |
| Starship V2 Flight 11 | SpX | Orbital Launch Pad 1 | SUCCESS | |
| Starship V2 Flight 10 | SpX | Orbital Launch Pad 1 | SUCCESS | |
| Starship V2 Flight 9 | SpX | Orbital Launch Pad 1 | FAILURE | |
| Starship V2 Flight 8 | SpX | Orbital Launch Pad 1 | FAILURE | |
| Starship V2 Flight 7 | SpX | Orbital Launch Pad 1 | FAILURE | |
| Starship V1 Integrated Flight Test 6 | SpX | Orbital Launch Pad 1 | SUCCESS | |
| Starship V1 Integrated Flight Test 5 | SpX | Orbital Launch Pad 1 | SUCCESS | |
| Starship V1 Integrated Flight Test 4 | SpX | Orbital Launch Pad 1 | SUCCESS | |
| Starship V1 Integrated Flight Test 3 | SpX | Orbital Launch Pad 1 | SUCCESS | |
| Starship V1 Integrated Flight Test 2 | SpX | Orbital Launch Pad 1 | PARTIAL FAILURE |
STARBASE, EXPLAINED
Why does Starbase launch so rarely compared with the other sites?
Because it is a test site, not a service. Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg fly customer payloads on a finished rocket, several times a month. Starbase flies a vehicle that is still being developed, in campaigns: build, fly, learn, change the design, build again. Twenty-two flights in the whole record is not a quiet site, it is a different kind of site. The number that matters here is not launches per month, it is what changed between one flight and the next.
What is the difference between Starbase and the Starship page?
This page is about the place: which pads exist, what has flown from them, and how to get near it. The Starship page is about the vehicle and the programme, wherever it flies from. They overlap today because Starship only flies from here, but that is already changing: a Starship pad is being prepared at Kennedy Space Center and appears in its schedule.
What does NET mean in the table above?
NET is short for no earlier than. It is the earliest moment a launch can happen, not a promise. A launch can slip later by minutes or by months, and it will never lift off before the time shown. The status tells you how firm the date is: GO means confirmed for the listed time, TBC means the date is to be confirmed, TBD means it is still to be determined. Starbase rows are almost always TBD, which is honest rather than unhelpful.
Where do these launch times come from?
From Launch Library 2 by The Space Devs, refetched by the T-Rocket server and written straight into this page. The site description, the pad notes and the viewing section are written by T-Rocket from the sources named against each entry. What every value means and how fresh it is, is documented under data sources. T-Rocket is not an official source: only the launch provider can confirm a launch, and only Cameron County can confirm a road closure.
Launch data: Launch Library 2 · The Space Devs,
refreshed by the server. Closure information from Cameron County, viewing information from Visit South
Padre Island and Cameron County Parks, as cited in each entry, checked 1 August 2026. All information
without guarantee: launch times change frequently, and closure orders are issued per flight.
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