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Try to roughly map out Starbase Louisiana using Terracon’s geotechnical survey and the public info we have so far.
1. Louisiana won’t build Starships. They’ll be shipped in from Starbase Texas by barge, so I didn’t include a Starfactory here.
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2. If this place is really built for high flight rates and rapid reuse, it’s going to need a serious TPS inspection, repair and refurbishment complex. I also left room for possible TPS production.
3. added a Massey-style test area for Raptor, Ship, cryo and acceptance testing. The exact location is just my guess.
4. There are three boreholes way up in the northwest. No idea what they’re for, but that spot actually looks pretty good for an airport.
5. The two boreholes directly north are another guess. I used that area for housing and admin/support facilities.
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Terafab is hiring for its early buildout team.
Site Planner, Sr. Construction Project Manager, Civil Construction Project Manager, Site Construction Superintendent, and Construction Logistics Supervisor.
Tesla is staffing up for Terafab’s construction phase.
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Lunar Citizen retweeted
Starship’s upper stage is over 100 tons and 9 meters wide.
SpaceX can complete the stacking in roughly 30 seconds, with almost no visible alignment adjustment.
How are they achieving that level of positioning accuracy between Ship and Booster?
SpaceX
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Well, even Claude sees Starship as part of the story of Western civilization, and as the starting point for interstellar migration and humanity’s long path toward a Kardashev Type III civilization.
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I did a rough estimate.
If each AI1 weighs around 4 tons, it would take about 90 Starship launches to double SpaceXAI’s current compute.
Around 1,100 launches could add as much AI compute as the entire world has today.
If the Louisiana Starship base really gets to 30 launches a day, that is only about 37 days.
This is why space compute could get insane.
Sunlight is free. You do not need to keep buying more land and building more power plants next to data centers.
The cost per token could fall to ridiculous levels.
Everyone gets access to huge amounts of compute.
At that point, every person starts to look like a super-individual.
Almost unlimited intelligence, available to everyone.
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JWST’s trajectory around the Sun–Earth L2 point.
It follows a huge, looping halo orbit around it, while constantly keeping its sunshield facing the Sun.
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Lunar Citizen retweeted
Starship 1: stacked for its first flight into the sky.
Starship 14: stacked for its first flight to LEO.
Fun fact: the stacking speed is exactly the same.
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Lunar Citizen retweeted
Starpipe is wildly oversized for today’s Starbase.TX
FAA limit: 25 launches/year.
Estimated pipe needed: 3 inches.
Starpipe: 16 inches.
On paper, that’s enough gas for roughly 6 launches a day, or about 3 launches per pad per day, matching the future launch rate SpaceX appears to be planning for its Starbase. LA
This is everything happening at the Port of Brownsville.
A Starship logistics and transfer hub is now taking shape, connecting Starbase with Cape Canaveral in Florida and the future Starbase Louisiana.
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