Space travel: SpaceX plans new rocket launch pad for $100 billion
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has ambitious plans for his space company. He's now starting in Louisiana with two launch pads for Starship rockets.
SpaceX plans to build a new $100 billion launch site for its Starship rocket on the southern coast of Louisiana. The site, to be located on 506 square kilometers of land in Pecan Island, would provide the company with a third potential launch site for the rocket. The project was announced by Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry and SpaceX executives, and would allow SpaceX to expand operations of the rocket, which is crucial to the company's future.
SpaceX currently builds and launches the rocket mainly in southern Texas and is also developing a second launch site in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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