SpaceX's Bastrop site balloons into industrial city with 1.1M sq ft solar factory
XFreeze · x · 2026-10-22
SpaceX's Bastrop, Texas Starlink/Starmind campus is rapidly becoming an industrial city. Starlink kits are already manufactured there, a massive 1.1 million sq ft solar cell factory is under construction alongside a solar ingot and wafer facility, and SpaceX plans a Gigasat Factory to mass-produce Starmind SI satellites. Drone pilot SERobinsonJr received SpaceX Security approval to fly and document the sites without TFRs, listing the build sites underway.
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