SpaceX will build the Starship launch complex in Louisiana
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SpaceX plans to build the 50,585-hectare Starbase complex in Louisiana for thousands of Starship launches each year. It will have its own infrastructure.
Elon Musk’s company SpaceX plans to build a Starship rocket complex in Louisiana. The company’s press service reports this, UNN reports.
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The company said that SpaceX plans to build a Starship launch pad in southern Louisiana.
The 125,000-acre (50,585-hectare) site called Starbase, Louisiana, will expand the company’s Starship launch operations beyond South Texas and is intended to support “thousands of Starship flights per year.”
The coastal marsh, more than eight times the size of Manhattan, will become a self-sufficient spaceport with fuel production, power generation, deepwater shipping capabilities, vehicle processing facilities, and an airport.
Recall
SpaceX’s first satellites with artificial intelligence, which will operate on Nvidia chips, are planned for launch in the fourth quarter of 2027.