SpaceX Announces New “Starbase, Louisiana” Spaceport for Thousands of Starship Flights Annually

SpaceX posted that Starbase, Louisiana will be built to support thousands of Starship flights a year for missions to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond (accompanied by a video). The post is trending due to the ambitious scale of the planned high-cadence launch site (part of a larger ~$100B+ self-sustaining spaceport with propellant production, power, shipping, processing, and airport facilities near Pecan Island/Vermilion Parish), expected job creation (thousands of permanent roles, heavily local), construction starting ~2027 with first flights ~2029, and amplification by Elon Musk and the space community highlighting multiplanetary goals.