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technology31 minutes ago•5 min saved

SpaceX Bets $100B on a Gulf Coast Starbase-Scale Louisiana Spaceport

SpaceX announced a plan to invest up to $100 billion to develop a Starbase-style spaceport along Louisiana's Gulf coast, including Starship factories, launch pads, propellant production, and on-site infrastructure. The project aims to begin construction in 2027 with an initial launch by 2029, leveraging large acreage, deep-water access, and potential polar-orbit trajectories while creating thousands of jobs and coordinating with state and federal agencies to protect wetlands.

via Ars Technica|

#investment #louisiana #spaceport

technology1 hour ago•3 min saved

SpaceX Plans Major Louisiana Launch Hub Near Vermilion Bay, Creating Thousands of Jobs

SpaceX unveiled a $100 billion plan to build a multi-site launch complex near Vermilion Bay, southeast of Lafayette, Louisiana, including five launch complexes with two pads each, a propellant farm, a power/processing hub and housing for employees. The project aims to make Starship operational at scale, with first launches targeted as early as 2029. It is expected to create about 3,000 direct jobs (avg. salary ~ $92,600) and over 8,100 indirect roles, while prioritizing in-state vendors and contributing $25 million to the Acadiana Community Foundation. Construction could begin in 2027, and the plan includes extensive environmental coordination and community engagement; some residents and officials have raised concerns about impacts to rural resources. Elon Musk did not attend the announcement.

via WDSU|

#jobs #louisiana #spacex

space2 days ago•6 min saved

SpaceX Aims for 10,000 Starship Launches a Year by 2030 Amid New Space Policy Push

Elon Musk says SpaceX wants 30+ Starship launches per day (about 10,000 a year) by 2030, a pace far beyond current FAA caps and ahead of a new Trump-backed space policy to accelerate launch site approvals and environmental reviews to feed NASA’s Artemis program. Near-term progress includes a six-engine static fire ahead of Flight 14 (no earlier than Aug 28) and regulatory caps permitting 44 Starship launches/year at Kennedy and 25 at Starbase. The piece also covers Tesla’s China recall fix via stickers and OTA updates, and Europe-bound Tesla Semi production with a Sept reveal at IAA Transportation, plus a move to mechanical door releases by 2027–2029.

via Teslarati|

#artemis #space #space-policy

business3 days ago•19 min saved

SpaceX stock slips as unlocks loom, Starship update and China rocket milestone

SpaceX stock SPCX closed the week down, retreating toward its IPO price as another round of employee/investor share unlocks freed about 319 million shares, with roughly 88% of SpaceX’s total 13 billion shares set to unlock through 2027. Earlier unlocks helped the stock bounce, but the larger supply waves remain. CEO Elon Musk also said Starship’s first reflight could occur by year‑end or early next year, with a downstream tower‑catch milestone pending testing. Separately, China’s LandSpace achieved a land-based recovery of the Zhuque-3 first stage on its second orbital flight, narrowing the reusable-rocketry gap with SpaceX, which has completed hundreds of booster landings since 2015.

via Yahoo Finance|

#business #share-unlock #spacex

finance4 days ago•19 min saved

SpaceX stock dips as unlocks loom and China hits land-based rocket milestone

SpaceX’s SPCX slid about 5% for the week after another wave of share unlocks—roughly 88% of its ~13 billion shares set to unlock through 2027, with Elon Musk’s 6.42 billion shares still locked until mid-2027. Separately, Musk offered an update on Starship with a potential end-of-year or early-next-year reflight and a tower-catch comment. In China, LandSpace’s Zhuque-3 achieved land-based booster recovery on its second flight, narrowing the gap with SpaceX’s reusable-rocketry record (SpaceX has landed boosters more than 600 times), though SpaceX’s payload capacity remains larger. The week underscored ongoing stock-market effects from unlocks and rising rocket-technology competition.

via Yahoo Finance|

#finance #rocketry #share-unlock

space4 days ago•13 min saved

SpaceX leaves a lunar mark as launch landscape shifts

In this Rocket Report edition, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 upper stage made a fresh lunar crater captured by NASA’s LRO, signaling a future likely dominated by Starship as Falcon 9 commercial launches may wind down after 2028; China’s Long March family rebounds with a successful Long March 12 flight and a Chang’e 7 mission targeting Shackleton crater near the Moon’s south pole; LandSpace’s Zhuque-3 demonstrates booster recovery; Taiwan’s NCSIST test for a military launcher experiences a trajectory anomaly triggering self-destruct; Innospace suffers a second suborbital failure; ULA names Mark Peller as president and CEO amid Vulcan grounding; ESA halts Ariane 6 Block 3 in favor of Block 2 and a new kick stage; cost-to-orbit data show the U.S. leading due to reuse, while Ukraine strikes a Russian rocket facility.

via Ars Technica|

#long-march #moon #space

technology5 days ago•3 min saved

SpaceX to retrieve Starship upper stage off Christmas Island after ocean splashdown

SpaceX is sending engineers to Christmas Island to retrieve the Starship upper stage that re-entered and splashed down in the Indian Ocean after a July test; the debris is being towed to calmer waters for analysis, with authorities maintaining an exclusion zone and officials noting potential for future reuse of rocket stages.

via The Guardian|

#christmas-island #recovery #space-debris

technology5 days ago•5 min saved

SpaceX recovers Starship's upper stage after 24-day ocean chase

SpaceX recovered the Starship upper stage (Ship 40) from the Indian Ocean after 24 days at sea, towing it to shore near Christmas Island. The intact upper stage will be returned to Starbase in Texas for analysis to improve future Starship designs, following Flight 13.

via USA Today|

#ocean-recovery #ship-40 #spacex

science6 days ago•87 min saved

America’s rocket cadence climbs as Artemis and Starship push a launch boom

Rockets are launching almost daily in the United States, driven by NASA’s Artemis program, SpaceX and other providers expanding the commercial launch cadence. The FAA projects thousands of launches in the next decade, with Florida and California leading launches and offshore sites being explored to meet growing demand for space missions and satellite deployments.

via Yahoo|

#artemis #faa #rocket-launches

technology8 days ago•14 min saved

Starship Pivot Risks Western Launch Crunch as Falcon 9 Winds Down

Despite surging demand for satellite launches, the Western market faces a capacity crunch as SpaceX signals winding down Falcon 9 to focus on Starship, potentially leaving customers reliant on a single workhorse. With rival heavy lifters delayed and new medium‑lift entrants still ramping up, relief is years away, and government intervention discussions exist but likely won’t provide a quick fix.

via Ars Technica|

#falcon-9 #launch-market #satellite-constellations

space9 days ago•13 min saved

Starship’s 33 engines and tower catch aim to slash turnaround times

SpaceX’s Starship stack delivers about 74.4 MN of thrust at liftoff from 33 Raptor 2 engines (roughly double Saturn V), but the real breakthrough is the plan to catch and refurbish the booster with the Mechazilla arms and fly the same hardware again within hours to days, potentially slashing per-flight costs and enabling frequent missions—though as of May 2026 boosters have not yet been reflown after a catch.

via Space Daily|

#mechazilla #reusability #rocketry

finance9 days ago•14 min saved

Musk Bets SpaceX’s AI Engine Could Be Its Biggest Value Driver

Musk says SpaceX’s AI business could become the primary value driver within 4–5 years as AI revenue surges toward a multitrillion-dollar TAM, but success depends on continued AI spending and SpaceX diversifying beyond a single customer, making the stock outlook uncertain despite optimistic growth projections.

via Yahoo Finance|

#ai #elon-musk #finance

space10 days ago•10 min saved

Starship’s Moonshot Thrust Tops Saturn V, but Orbital Refueling Remains Unproven

SpaceX’s Starship V3 delivers about 18 million pounds of liftoff thrust—over 2x Saturn V’s 7.6 million—yet after 13 integrated flights it has not demonstrated ship-to-ship refueling in orbit, a critical capability for Mars missions. Previous tests moved cryogenic oxygen within a single vehicle, but true orbital refueling requires two ships to rendezvous, dock, and transfer propellant with reliable, reusable interfaces and turnaround. The thrust advantage reflects scale, not readiness; many other challenges remain before Mars becomes feasible, with refueling seen as the bridge from a reusable launcher to an interplanetary transport system.

via spacedaily.com|

#propulsion #refueling #space

spaceflight16 days ago•51 min saved

Starship upper stage recovery faces grim odds after 13th flight

SpaceX's Starship upper stage from Flight 13 survived splashdown and is being towed toward shore off Western Australia, but Elon Musk says the recovery is not looking good despite close-up photos of critical heat-shield and engine areas; the mission deployed 20 Starlink V3 satellites, underscoring SpaceX's broader plan for a massive satellite constellation.

via Yahoo|

#elon-musk #heat-shield #spaceflight

technology17 days ago•158 min saved

Starship Flight 13: Ocean salvage stalls as SpaceX faces possible loss

SpaceX's Starship Flight 13 ended with Ship surviving its Indian Ocean splashdown but now at risk as rough seas complicate salvage; Elon Musk says the recovery prospects look poor two weeks after the July 24 test, which also deployed 20 Starlink V3 satellites, signaling SpaceX's continued push toward a reusable, high-capacity space network.

via Space|

#elon-musk #ocean-recovery #spacex