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Multi-billionaire Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX has announced that it will build its largest launch site yet in the southern US state of Louisiana.
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Construction of the $100bn (£73bn) project - named Starbase, Louisiana - is due to start next year, with the 125,000-acre (50,585-hectare) site expanding on the company's operations beyond its current Texas headquarters and locations in Florida.
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It will be used to "support thousands of Starship flights a year with missions launching to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars and beyond," SpaceX said on Tuesday.
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In June, SpaceX shares started trading on New York's technology-focused Nasdaq in the world's biggest ever stock market debut.
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SpaceX said it aims to launch its first Starship flight from the new Louisiana base in 2029.
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The facility will add more than 3,000 jobs to the region, the company said, external.
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The Louisiana Economic Development agency said the average wage of workers at the base - the largest of its kind in the world - would be 192% more than the region's current average salary.
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It will also create more than 8,100 new jobs indirectly, the agency estimated.
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"The historic project will establish Louisiana as a global hub for next-generation aerospace, with the capacity and infrastructure needed to dramatically increase launch frequency and expand access to space," it added.
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The facility in Louisiana will share its name with another SpaceX site on the southern tip of Texas.
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In 2025, residents in an area of Cameron County, where the company has testing and development operations, approved incorporating the patch of land as a city called Starbase.
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Musk has set out ambitious goals for SpaceX, including plans to reach Mars, develop artificial intelligence (AI) models and launch data centres into space.
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In August, SpaceX and Tesla - Musk's electric vehicle and robotics firm - announced plans to build a $16.8bn artificial intelligence (AI) chip making complex in Texas called the Terafab.
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The facility aims to meet the companies' growing demand for computing power to support its projects including developing AI and robotics technology over the coming years.
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The newly-listed SpaceX is under pressure to convince investors that it will be profitable even as it pursues its expansion plans.
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Its shares have tumbled by more than 30% from the highs reached shortly after it began trading but are still higher than their $135 offer price.
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