WATCH LIVE: Starships 7th launch from Boca Chica

BOCA CHICA, Texas (ValleyCentral) — SpaceX is set to launch its seventh Starship rocket Thursday from the Boca Chica launch site.

The launch window will open at 4 p.m. SpaceX will be streaming a webcast of the flight test 35 minutes before liftoff.

The seventh Starship test is expected to test significant upgrades.

In this test Starship will attempt its first payload deployment test, attempt to fly multiple reentry experiments geared towards ship catch and reuse, and launch and return the Super Heavy booster.

At the center of the space scene is the upgrades to the Starship upper stage which will debut during this flight test.

"The vehicle’s forward flaps have been reduced in size and shifted towards the vehicle tip and away from the heat shield, significantly reducing their exposure to reentry heating while simplifying the underlying mechanisms and protective tiling," the SpaceX website reads.

Redesigns to the propulsion system, include a 25% increase in propellant volume.

Additionally, the vehicle’s avionics underwent a complete redesign, adding additional capability and redundancy for increasingly complex missions like propellant transfer and ship return to launch site.

While in space, Starship will deploy 10 Starlink simulators, similar in size and weight to next-generation Starlink satellites, as the first exercise of a satellite deploy mission, according to SpaceX.

The Starlink simulators will be on the same suborbital trajectory as Starship. A relight of a single Raptor engine while in space is also planned.

"The Super Heavy booster will utilize flight proven hardware for the first time, reusing a Raptor engine from the booster launched and returned on Starship’s fifth flight test," SpaceX stated. "Hardware upgrades to the launch and catch tower will increase reliability for booster catch, including protections to the sensors on the tower chopsticks that were damaged at launch and resulted in the booster offshore divert on Starship’s previous flight test."

When the booster slows down from supersonic speeds an audible sonic boom is anticipated.

To watch the Starship rocket take flight live from the LabPadre steam, click here.