SpaceX Announces $100 B Starbase Louisiana Spaceport to Support Thousands of Starship Launches

SpaceX and Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry announced a second Starbase spaceport, this one on a roughly 125,000-acre site in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, with SpaceX committing at least $100 billion to the facility . Construction is set to begin in 2027, with the company targeting a first Starship launch in 2029 and initial operations expected online in 2030 .

The new site would be SpaceX's second dedicated Starship launch complex, alongside Starbase, Texas, as the company works to scale Starship's flight cadence. SpaceX has already spent more than $8 billion developing Starship, according to filings submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission, underscoring how much capital the program has consumed even before this next site breaks ground .

SpaceX said the Louisiana project is expected to create more than 3,000 direct jobs, with construction employment peaking at more than 30,000 workers and an average salary of $92,600 . CEO Elon Musk said Starbase Louisiana will "ultimately have over a dozen launch towers, enabling more than 30 Starship flights per day and making it the biggest launch site on Earth," though that capacity figure is Musk's own characterization rather than an independently verified operating plan .

What to watch: whether construction stays on track for its 2027 start, whether the 2029 first-launch and 2030 initial-operations targets hold, and whether SpaceX converts the announced investment and job commitments into signed launch contracts as it builds out capacity in Texas and Louisiana in parallel.

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