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Does someone know where to watch the official livestream? The internet is so swarmed with all the recasters I cannot find the official stream anymore...

Edit: https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-14

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Only on X, sadly.

My experience however is that NASASpaceflight provides an overall better coverage than the official stream, only recasting when they don't have camera angles themselves (Such as when the ship is in space or during reentry)

They have a stream on their page starting 40min before launch.

Also can recommend the restream of everyday astronaut Tim Dodd

Yeah but it's just a white-labelled version of the X stream with all its warts.

ETA: Sorry this was ambiguous, I'm complaining that the stream on spacex.com uses x.com, whereas there used to be a much better stream through youtube.com

That's the opposite of the criticism that was levelled at him, during earlier launches, when he was preferring his own cameras even though they only caught fog.

Which warts? I mean if you dislike Space X, what do you expect to get from it at all?

The streams are great, I just wish they were streamed on youtube like they used to be.

That’s sounds perfect. No “commentators” no “own angles”, no “buy our merch”, no whining about “my crappy blackmagic camera may have been damaged”

Here is the unofficial NASASpaceFlight stream: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9gDxG-pm1Zo

They are already live and have a lot of background discussion, unlike the official SpaceX stream.

> Only on X, sadly.

And it's SpaceX, not ESA, sadly.

The X video stream is flawless.

I got them but with a 10 second delay compared to the spacex feed, which was irritating but meant I could flip between the "official" commentary and NASASpaceflight.

There was a bit of snark from the SpaceX guy Dave about whether or not the go/no-go decision had been made and not to listen to "other broadcasters" and he was right.

But the NASASpaceFlight guys are the right kind of nerds to be commentating, because they don't have to keep up the "steel jawed rocketman" image and can just geek out on the launch.

Yeah, the NSF cast quality is more amateurish, and certain cast members aren't that good at doing live casting. But it's nice listening to like minded people. And their camera shots are beautiful.

> can just geek out on the launch

They can also speculate wildly, and pass along abundant rumors, and shill for lots of donations and subscriptions and hard-sell the merch. They can promote extra fan videos in their subscription-only sections. They can bloviate over and over just to fill the airwaves, like they're on a 120-minute podcast with 10 minutes of useful script. They are the "new media" that is beloved in 2026 and anointed to usurp the mainstream media of CNN, New York Times, and television.

"NASASpaceFlight" is a misleading name if I ever saw it, because they are neither the National Aeronautics & Space Administration, nor the National Science Foundation. At least "The Launch Pad" and TLP are not pretending that way.

One of them has finagled their way into placing their own cameras around the launch sites of Kennedy and/or Cape Canaveral. So they do have their own views on the ground. They have not been permitted on-base by the USSF at Vandenberg or elsewhere.

Source: I've been banned from the two top third-party rebroadcasters. Good riddance.

YouTube rebroadcast of official SpaceX feed (h/t NasaSpaceFlight forums):

https://youtube.com/watch?v=fmkHjDeECps

Also hosted directly on SpaceX website:

https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-14

I use to watch the nasaspaceflight and everyday astronaut streams but the official one is best for the actual launch. The other two are good for the commentary because if you ask a question in the chat they’ll sometimes answer it.

https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-14

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