The $100B Starbase Louisiana will have 10 pads (5 complexes × 2) and will start building in 2027 with a first launch targeted 2029.
The new launch facilities will not have a positive revenue impact until 2029 and only if the work stays on schedule.
SpaceX now has 17 Starship launch pads under development. Those 17 pads will eventually have a combined launch capacity of 15,000+ launches per year.
Elon Musk’s said Louisiana will ultimately have over a dozen launch towers.
Confirmed / under construction (5 pads)
Starbase, Texas — 2 pads
Pad 1 (original orbital launch mount) used for the first 11 flights. N ow being rebuilt to the same flame-trench / water-cooled-deck design as Pad 2.
Pad 2 is new-generation pad that hosted the first Block 3 / Starship V3 flights in 2026. This is the current operational Starship pad.
Florida — 3 pads
LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center Starship tower already stacked
New launch mount installed
FAA approval for 44 launches / 88 landings per year. First Florida Starship flight is targeted for late 2026
SLC-37A and SLC-37B, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Two pads approved December 2025. Construction is under way (tower modules stacked, launch-mount fabrication started). Combined capacity listed as ~76 launches and 152 landings per year.
Including Starbase, Louisiana, @SpaceX now has 17 Starship launch pads under development. Those 17 pads will eventually have a combined launch capacity of 15,000+ launches per year, more than twice the total number of rocket launches in all of history. pic.twitter.com/f7VJrMUUKP
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So 39a with 1, LC37 for 2, 10 at the newly announced Louisiana complex. If I include the existing 2 at Starbase Texas that’s 15. SLC 6 at Vandenberg? Did they announce that shifting to Starship from FH?
Start building in 2027 with first launch in 2029 is unrealistic as NIMBYs and environmental groups will hammer this during the EIS phase; the public meetings and comment period will see how well they are organized and once the EIS is signed with a ROD, then you’ll see lawsuits. I hear FAA is trying to waive NEPA, ESA, and CWA requirements for commercial space licenses and reentries. If so, then lawsuits will begin shortly afterward.