SpaceX to build Starship rocket complex in Louisiana
SpaceX says the campus could support thousands of Starship flights a year and create more than 3,000 direct jobs.
- On Tuesday, Gov. Jeff Landry will unveil a SpaceX launch site in Pecan Island, Vermilion Parish, in a project his office described as "a defining moment for Louisiana's future."
- Louisiana lawmakers passed several bills to attract aerospace investments, aiming to compete with Texas, Alabama, and Mississippi, as Secretary of Louisiana Economic Development Susan Bourgeois cited aerospace as a "priority sector."
- Local real estate broker Kathy Dyson noted significant interest in land and housing as the region prepares for a project expected to create a construction boom and 3,000 or more permanent jobs.
- Public Service Commissioner Davante Lewis expressed concerns about power grid capabilities in the region, while analysts warned the area currently lacks enough hotel rooms to accommodate 1,000 workers.
- SpaceX aims to launch Starship from multiple locations to reach its goal of thousands of launches annually, positioning the company to expand beyond its current Boca Chica, Texas, site.
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Thousands of flights to space per year? US billionaire Elon Musk wants to drive commercial space travel – and build the world's largest launch facility.
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vienna.atElon Musk has a new major project: a huge SpaceX airport is to be built in Louisiana to handle thousands of flights a year. It is to become the "largest take-off site on earth".
Elon Musks SpaceX plans to build a new rocket launch site in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Starting in 2029, first Starship rockets will be launched from there. According to the company, the project will drive commercial space travel.
SpaceX is building a $100 billion rocket base in Louisiana. Elon Musk's new Starbase could launch thousands of Starships a year.
Louisiana built stages of the Saturn V rockets that carried astronauts to the Moon, but has never hosted an orbital launch. SpaceX now plans a $100 billion Gulf Coast spaceport targeting its first Starship flight in 2029 — with an eventual capacity of thousands a year.
Louisiana has spent more than sixty years building enormous pieces of America’s space programme without becoming the place those vehicles leave Earth. At NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, workers built the first stage of the Saturn V, the part whose five F-1 engines lifted the Moon rocket away from its Florida launch pad. Michoud later produced the external tanks used on every Space Shuttle mission. Today its factory floor is occu…
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