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A second $100 billion spaceport is announced with ten pads

development2026-08-27

Claim

SpaceX introduced Starbase, Louisiana, a $100 billion spaceport with ten pads and thousands of Starship launches a year from 2029, while Musk said a space-optimized rack flies next year — compute goes up because rockets do.

Reported metric: $100B / 10 pads

Reporting date: 2026-08-27 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to August 27, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Welcome to August 27, 2026

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SpaceX

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A presidential memorandum orders a thousand launches a year by 2030

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A second $100 billion spaceport is announced with ten pads
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-08-27
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-08-27-a-hundred-billion-dollar-second-spaceport
Claim: SpaceX introduced Starbase, Louisiana, a $100 billion spaceport with ten pads and thousands of Starship launches a year from 2029, while Musk said a space-optimized rack flies next year — compute goes up because rockets do.
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- Welcome to August 27, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-august-27-2026
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