When is liftoff? Where to watch in Vero Beach, Fort Pierce

Can a rocket launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, be seen farther south, in Treasure Coast skies?

If the conditions are right, yes!

And when this “so Florida” thing occurs, it’s very Instagram-worthy.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will carry Starlink internet-beaming satellites into low-Earth orbit near NASA, a Federal Aviation Administration operations plan advisory shows. Launch time and day for SpaceX is possibly around lunchtime or early afternoon (see below).

Though rockets here launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center near Merritt Island, Florida, or Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, people from the Treasure Coast can sometimes see this #SoFlorida phenomenon.

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Weather permitting and depending on cloud cover, a rocket launch from Florida’s Space Coast could be visible from Jacksonville Beach and Daytona Beach to Vero Beach and West Palm Beach (see videos and photo gallery with this story). When there’s a launch window in the middle of the night or very early morning, there’s an opportunity for unique photos — the rocket lights up the dark sky and the contrail after makes for a great photo.

Below is more information on rocket launches in Florida and suggestions on where to watch them from the Treasure Coast.

For questions or comments, email FLORIDA TODAY Space Reporter Rick Neale at [email protected] or Space Reporter Brooke Edwards at [email protected]. For more space news from the USA TODAY Network, visit floridatoday.com/space.

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What time is the next rocket launch from Florida? Wednesday, May 14: SpaceX Starlink 6-67

• Mission: SpaceX will launch a payload of Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket into low-Earth orbit, according to a Federal Aviation Administration operations plan advisory.

• Launch window time and day: 11:43 a.m. to 4:14 p.m. EDT Wednesday, May 14, 2025

• Location of rocket launch: Launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center near Cape Canaveral, Florida

• Live coverage starts 90 minutes before liftoff at floridatoday.com/space: You can watch live rocket launch coverage from USA TODAY Network’s Space Team, which consists of FLORIDA TODAY space reporters Rick Neale and Brooke Edwards and visuals journalists Craig Bailey, Malcolm Denemark and Tim Shortt. Our Space Team will provide up-to-the-minute updates in a mobile-friendly live blog, complete with a countdown clock, at floridatoday.com/space, starting 90 minutes before liftoff. You can download the free FLORIDA TODAY app, which is available in the App Store or Google Play, or type floridatoday.com/space into your browser.

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Where to watch a SpaceX rocket launch in Indian River County, Florida

• Sebastian Inlet State Park, 9700 S. State Road A1A, Melbourne Beach (cost to enter)

• Wabasso Beach Park, 1808 Wabasso Beach Road, Wabasso

• Ambersands Beach Park, 12566 N. SR A1A, Vero Beach (free parking)

• South Beach Park, 1700 Ocean Drive, Vero Beach (free parking)

• Merrill Barber Bridge in Vero Beach

• Alma Lee Loy Bridge in Vero Beach

Where to watch a SpaceX rocket launch in St. Lucie County, Florida

• Fort Pierce Inlet State Park, 905 Shorewinds Drive

• Blind Creek Beachside North and South, 5460 S. Ocean Drive, Fort Pierce

• Blue Heron Beach, 2101 Blue Heron Blvd., Fort Pierce

• Frederick Douglass Memorial Park, 3600 S. Ocean Drive, Fort Pierce

• Dollman Park Beachside, 9200 S. Ocean Drive, Jensen Beach

• Herman’s Bay Beach, 7880 S. Ocean Drive, Jensen Beach

• John Brooks Park Beachside, 3300 S. Ocean Drive, Fort Pierce

• Middle Cove Beach, 4600 S. Ocean Drive, Fort Pierce

• Normandy Beach in Jensen Beach

• Pepper Park Beachside, 3302 N. S.R. A1A, Fort Pierce,

• Walton Rocks Beach, 6700 S. Ocean Drive, Jensen Beach (dog park)

• Waveland Beach, 10350 S. Ocean Drive, Jensen Beach

Where to watch a SpaceX rocket launch in Martin County, Florida

• State Road A1A causeway in Stuart

• House of Refuge and beach, 301 S.E. MacArthur Blvd., Stuart

This article originally appeared on Treasure Coast Newspapers: When is rocket launch at NASA, Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral?