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SpaceX Plans $100 Billion Investment to Build World's Largest Spaceport, Raises Annual Starship Launch Target to Thousands

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TradingKey - SpaceX (SPCX) announced on Tuesday that it plans to invest $100 billion to build a new major spaceport, "Starbase Louisiana," in Louisiana, U.S., which will become the company's largest launch facility to date. Located on Pecan Island in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, the project covers approximately 125,000 acres, with construction scheduled to start in 2027 and SpaceX targeting its first Starship launch as early as 2029.

According to the plans, the new site will feature five launch complexes with a total of 10 launch pads, alongside supporting facilities for rocket fuel production and storage, power generation, spacecraft processing, deep-water transport, and employee living quarters. SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell stated that the facility will adopt a highly independent operating model, with the ultimate goal of supporting thousands of Starship launches per year.

Currently, Starship is primarily tested at Starbase in Texas, while the company is also expanding its Starship launch capacity in Florida. Once operational, the Louisiana site will become SpaceX's fourth launch location in the U.S. and significantly increase the company's overall rocket launch capacity.

Such massive launch capacity is mainly designed to serve several of SpaceX's core future businesses. First is deploying next-generation Starlink satellites using Starship; second is executing commercial and government space missions as well as lunar and Mars programs. More notably, SpaceX also plans to build a data center satellite network for space-based AI computing. Such projects may require large-scale satellite deployments into orbit, which is also a key reason why the company expects to need thousands of Starship launches in the future.

For SpaceX, investing $100 billion to build a new launch site will provide a foundation of scale for Starship's future business model. If Starship can achieve rapid reusability and significantly lower per-launch costs, SpaceX can gradually upgrade its current Falcon 9-centered launch architecture to a higher-capacity, higher-frequency Starship system, thereby supporting Starlink, commercial spaceflight, government contracts, and space AI operations simultaneously.

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