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Starship Flight 15 — Live Launch Watch
Starbase, Texas — currently targeted for no earlier than November 8, 2026, and subject to change. The first-ever double-catch attempt, and the launch coasts, live. Free, no signup.
Starship Flight 15 is currently targeted for no earlier than November 8, 2026, from Starbase, Texas — FAA planning information carries the date, and Starship dates are famously movable, so hold it as a window, not an appointment. The flight's ambition is fixed even if its date is not: for the first time, SpaceX plans to catch both the Super Heavy booster and the returning Ship with the tower arms. Nothing orbital has ever been recovered whole. When it flies, it is one of the biggest live events on Earth.
This page is WorldEye's launch hub, built to outlive the one flight: the public cameras around Starbase and the South Texas coast first, then the other launch coasts the directory covers — Cape Canaveral, Vandenberg and Wallops — each with its real camera count, stated plainly. South Texas coverage is honestly thin: eight public cameras within 45 km of the pad, the nearest about 10 km away on South Padre Island. There is no pad close-up in the public catalogue, and the page says so rather than dressing up distant highway feeds as one.
The cameras are half the watch. The other half is the map itself: WorldEye's globe carries a live launch layer fed by launch-library data, plus the flight and satellite layers that fill the sky on launch day. Open the globe during the window and the whole event — pad, coast, airspace and orbit — is one view.
Track the flight on the globe
The WorldEye globe plots the world's launch pads with their upcoming missions, and the same map carries live flights and satellites — on launch day, the airspace closures, the chase planes and the growing orbital train are all in the same picture as the coast below.
Starbase & the South Texas coast
Every public camera within 45 km of the Starbase pad: 8. The two nearest stand on South Padre Island's PR 100, roughly 10 km north of the pad across the water; the rest cover Brownsville's IH-69E corridors, the roads the launch crowds drive. Thin — and on a clear launch day, still worth watching: a Starship ascent lights up the whole coast.
10 km from Starbase
10 km from Starbase
35 km from Starbase
35 km from Starbase
35 km from Starbase
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43 km from Starbase
43 km from Starbase
Cape Canaveral & Kennedy — the Florida coast
The Space Coast is the directory's richest launch landscape: 68 public cameras within 30 km of Kennedy Space Center — Titusville, Cocoa Beach and the SR-528 corridor facing the pads across the water. Flight 16 is tentatively planned as the first Starship launch from Florida's LC-39A, in December; whenever Starship comes east, this wall is where it will be watched from.
Vandenberg — the California coast
Vandenberg Space Force Base flies the polar missions from the cliffs above Lompoc. 11 public cameras stand within 30 km — the Lompoc and Santa Maria corridor feeds that watch the base's approaches and the coast its rockets climb over.
Wallops Island — the Virginia coast
NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, on Virginia's Eastern Shore, is the quietest of the four ranges — and its public camera coverage is the thinnest: 2 cameras within 30 km, around Chincoteague. They are listed because they are what honestly exists; when an Antares or a sounding rocket flies from Wallops, the Eastern Shore sky is the show and these are its windows.
Launch coasts — camera counts
| Area | Cameras |
|---|---|
| Starbase, Texas (45 km) | 8 |
| Cape Canaveral / Kennedy, Florida (30 km) | 68 |
| Vandenberg, California (30 km) | 11 |
| Wallops Island, Virginia (30 km) | 2 |
Counts are public cameras in the WorldEye directory within the stated radius of each launch site. Starbase's radius is wider because its coverage is sparser — the honest comparison is the count, not the circle.
How to follow Flight 15 on WorldEye
- 1In the run-up, check the Starbase wall: the South Padre and Brownsville cameras show the coast's weather and the launch crowds gathering on PR 100.
- 2Before the window, open the globe's launch layer for the mission's current status — Starship dates move, and the planning data moves with them.
- 3During the window, split your attention: the coastal cameras for the ascent's light over the water, the flight layer for the airspace, the satellite layer for what the flight leaves in orbit.
- 4After Flight 15, this page stays as the launch hub — the Cape wall is already watching the coast Flight 16 is tentatively planned to fly from.