Starbase, Louisiana

The Sites page, not Updates

On 25 August 2026 SpaceX published a Sites page, not an Updates post. Starbase, LA. A spaceport on the Louisiana Gulf Coast enabling a multiplanetary future. The page called it the newest Starship launch site currently under development, designed for high-cadence launch. That is the announcement. This desk will keep it that size. The same day, at 12:13 p.m. ET, @SpaceX wrote: Introducing Starbase, Louisiana – a high-cadence launch site that will enable Starship to open a pathway to the stars for humanity. A pathway is not a landing. A second coast is not a city.

Thousands of flights a year

Starbase, Louisiana will be built to support thousands of Starship flights a year. The Sites page lists a self-sustaining spaceport: propellant production, power generation, deep-water shipping capabilities, vehicle processing facilities, and an airport. Construction starts 2027. First Starship launch 2029. Those are the years on the page. They are not flown years. This desk will not pretend a 2029 first launch is a stack that has already left the Gulf.

• Cadence claim — thousands of Starship flights a year
• Facilities — propellant production, power generation, deep-water shipping, vehicle processing, airport
• Construction starts — 2027
• First Starship launch — 2029
• Flown from this coast — not yet

At least $100 billion, Louisana

The economic line is printed once. SpaceX wrote that it is committed to investing at least $100 billion and creating more than 3,000 new jobs at Starbase, Louisana — that is the spelling on the page. This desk will quote the typo if it quotes the sentence. More than 3,000 is the jobs number. It is not a larger jobs count printed elsewhere. It is not a housing count. It is not a PILOT. Hiring heavily from nearby communities is on the same sentence. This desk will not upgrade the print.

• Investment — at least $100 billion
• Jobs — more than 3,000 new jobs at Starbase, Louisana (as printed)
• Not on this page — a larger jobs count, housing, PILOT, acreage of the full tract

Elon, not the Sites page

Elon, quoting the SpaceX post the same day, wrote a different sentence, and it is labeled here as Elon, not the Sites page: 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. Over a dozen is not a pad count this desk will invent. More than 30 a day is Elon’s cadence, not the Sites page’s thousands a year. Both can sit on the record. They are not the same claim. This desk will not mix them.

• Source — Elon on X, 25 August 2026, quoting @SpaceX
• Towers — over a dozen launch towers
• Cadence — more than 30 Starship flights per day
• Rank — the biggest launch site on Earth
• Sites page cadence — thousands of flights a year; not the per-day line

Vermilion Parish, Pecan Island

The Sites page names Vermilion Parish and Pecan Island. In Vermilion Parish, the shoreline is eroding between 3.3 and 23 feet per year. SpaceX says it is partnering with state and federal agencies to expand Louisiana’s Coastal Master Plan and Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act projects. Marsh creation is printed as thousands of acres, using beneficial-use placement of dredged material and offshore sediment. SpaceX is not developing the full footprint of the land and will preserve wetlands and wildlife habitat. That is the closed environmental record. This desk will not print a full-tract acreage. That number is not on the Sites page.

• Place — Vermilion Parish, Pecan Island
• Shoreline loss — 3.3 to 23 feet per year
• Restoration partners — Coastal Master Plan / CWPPRA
• Marsh creation — thousands of acres (as printed)
• Full footprint — SpaceX is not developing it
• Not on the Sites page — a full-tract acreage

A second coast is not a transfer window

Mission already carries the Mars sentence: more than ten launches a day when a roughly twenty-six-month transfer window is open. That line is how a city gets filled. This paper is a second coast. Thousands of flights a year from Louisiana is how a window can be filled from more than one Gulf pad. It is not the window. It is not a first Louisiana stack. It is not a tanker transfer. It is not a Mars landing. Construction has not started. The first Starship launch from this site is printed as 2029. This desk will not invent a flown year, a first stack, or landing gear the Sites page does not have. A second coast is how a window gets filled. It is not a city.

Selected primary sources

SpaceX, “Starbase, LA,” 25 August 2026, https://www.spacex.com/sites/starbase-la. @SpaceX, 25 August 2026, 12:13 p.m. ET, https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2092284173730144732. Elon Musk, 25 August 2026, quoting that post, https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2092292773915537580. The Sites page is the source for the spaceport sentence, the newest-site / high-cadence line, thousands of Starship flights a year, the self-sustaining list (propellant production, power generation, deep-water shipping, vehicle processing, an airport), construction starts 2027, first Starship launch 2029, at least $100 billion and more than 3,000 new jobs at Starbase, Louisana, Vermilion Parish shoreline loss of 3.3 to 23 feet per year, Coastal Master Plan / CWPPRA, thousands of acres of marsh creation, Pecan Island, and the statement that SpaceX is not developing the full footprint. Elon’s post is the source for over a dozen launch towers, more than 30 Starship flights per day, and the biggest launch site on Earth. This desk did not take acreage, pad counts, a larger jobs count, housing, or PILOT numbers from secondary coverage. SpaceX has not published a first Louisiana stack, a tanker transfer from this coast, or a Mars landing. This desk will not borrow one.