SpaceX Building Million Sq Foot Starship Starfactory, Working On Flight 3 & 4 Applications

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SpaceX's general manager for Starbase, Kathy Leuders, outlined in a presentation given earlier this month that the firm is planning to increase its Starship launch cadence from Texas rapidly. This process will involve SpaceX and the FAA working together on multiple licensing applications simultaneously, according to Ms. Leuders. Her presentation shared that SpaceX is rapidly expanding its facilities in Boca Chica, Texas, and will soon build a rocket manufacturing factory called Starfactory. Starship is the world's largest rocket, and SpaceX's plans for it range from interplanetary missions going as far as Mars to conducting point-to-point flights on Earth.

Ms. Leuders' presentation was given at the Brownsville Event Center in Brownsville, Texas at a talk organized by the Office of Space Commerce and the Brownsville Convention and Visitors Bureau. Her talk ranged from sharing details about SpaceX's future Starship launch plans, the money it invested to set up its base in Boca Chica, Texas and its facility expansion.

SpaceX manufactures its Starship rockets in Boca Chica, and the engines that power them are shipped in from the firm's facilities in California. Leuders said her company is undertaking 'major construction' activity at the site.

She shared:

"Anybody that's been at Starbase, they understand we're in the middle of a major construction activity. I mean we have a million square foot factory coming online and being built right now. We have additional homes being built in the village that we have coming online. We have all of our utilities, we kind of [inaudible] little bit backward,