SpaceX flight testing in South Texas

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19m video

https://x.com/SERobinsonJr/status/20...335260415?s=20

SPACEX: I visited Pecan Island in Louisiana's Vermilion Parish. The 136,000-acre site, owned by ExxonMobil and Vermilion Corporation, is under consideration by SpaceX for their next spaceport.

Vermilion Corporation owns an unused dock on Freshwater Bayou at the mouth of the Gulf of America. This location would allow SpaceX to barge Super Heavy Boosters and Starships from Starbase.

Farther north lies the Freshwater City public boat ramp and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Freshwater Lock, which connects to the Intracoastal Waterway.

I flew over the area closest to the port. The land appears stable.

Note that the full 212-square-mile site extends across the entire area visible east of the port