Launch
Sites

Starship Orbital Launch Mount

SpaceX's primary Starship launch and catch facility. Home of every Integrated Flight Test (IFT). Includes the Mechazilla tower with chopstick catch arms, water deluge system, and Stage Zero hardware.

25.9969° 97.1561°W

Falcon 9 / Heavy / Crew Dragon

Historic Apollo and Space Shuttle pad, leased by SpaceX since 2014. Crew Dragon launches, Falcon Heavy missions, and high-profile Falcon 9 flights launch from here. Future Starship operations planned.

28.6082° 80.6041°W

Falcon 9 — highest cadence

SpaceX's busiest launch pad. Workhorse for Starlink, Cargo Dragon, and commercial missions. Recently rebuilt with Crew Dragon access tower for backup crew launches.

28.5618° 80.5772°W

Falcon 9 — polar / SSO

West Coast Falcon 9 pad on Vandenberg Space Force Base. Polar and Sun-synchronous orbits — Starlink polar shells, NRO spy satellites, and science missions like SWOT and PACE.

34.6322° 120.6108°W

Future Starship East Coast

Former Delta IV pad, now under SpaceX redevelopment for Starship. First East Coast Starship launches expected once Stage Zero infrastructure is operational.

28.5317° 80.5660°W

Second Starship pad

Second orbital launch mount under construction at Starbase. Will allow parallel pad ops and faster turnaround. Designed for Starship V3 with extended Raptor 3 engines.

25.9991° 97.1546°W

Headquarters & F9 manufacturing

SpaceX world headquarters and primary Falcon 9 / Falcon Heavy first-stage manufacturing facility. All Falcon cores and Merlin engines are built here. Mission Control rooms for Crew Dragon ops.

33.9208° 118.3289°W

Starship & Booster integration

Massive production complex (formerly High Bay 1+2) housing Starship and Super Heavy final assembly, stacking, and integration. Targeting one full vehicle stack per month.

25.9938° 97.1545°W

Satellite R&D + production

Starlink satellite design, mission control, and assembly. Houses the constellation's ground operations and antenna development.

47.6805° 122.1208°W

Starlink V2 production

Texas Starlink manufacturing facility producing the larger V2-class satellites. Adds capacity beyond Redmond for the rapidly growing constellation.

30.1105° 97.3151°W

Booster processing

Falcon 9 booster horizontal-integration and processing facility on Kennedy Space Center grounds. Boosters are inspected, refurbished, and re-stacked between flights here.

28.5811° 80.6489°W

Engine acceptance testing

SpaceX's primary engine test facility in central Texas. Every Raptor and Merlin engine is hot-fired here for acceptance testing before flight. Static fires, lifecycle tests, and development hot-fires.

31.4026° 97.3263°W

Starship cryo & static fire

SpaceX's structural and propellant test site near Boca Chica. Cryogenic proof tests, hydraulic stress tests, and Raptor static fires for Starship development articles.

25.9764° 97.1762°W

ASOG home port

East-coast drone-ship port. ASOG (A Shortfall of Gravitas) returns here after Falcon 9 booster recoveries. Also home to the original drone-ship JRTI before West Coast move.

28.4059° 80.6080°W

JRTI home port

West-coast drone-ship port at the Port of Long Beach. JRTI (Just Read the Instructions) deploys from here for SLC-4E booster recoveries.

33.7701° 118.2138°W