SpaceX Bastrop Complex

Overview

Six Facilities on FM 1209

Starlink terminals since 2021, the Gigasat Factory since June 2026, a turbine foundry since August 2026, and the X and Boring headquarters.

The SpaceX Bastrop Complex is a group of SpaceX, X Corp. and Boring Company facilities on FM 1209 near FM 969 in unincorporated Bastrop County, about 30 miles southeast of Austin. Musk companies began buying land here in 2021 and have assembled more than 1,000 acres; SpaceX employs about 1,600 people on site.

It is one of the three manufacturing supernodes of the Austin Supercluster, with Tesla Giga Texas and Samsung Taylor. Unlike those two, it is not one heavy plant but a cluster of SpaceX hardware lines: Starlink terminals and chip packaging, the Gigasat satellite and solar campus, and a turbine blade foundry.

Gigasat

From Ingot to Orbit

Select a stage to see its suppliers in the ring.

1. PlannedIngots and wafersSolar-grade silicon grown and sliced on site
2. Under constructionSolar cells10 GW a year on two 5 GW floors
3. Under constructionCircuit boardsBoards for satellite and terminal electronics
4. PlannedComponentsBoard-level electronic assemblies
5. Under constructionAdvanced packagingRF chips first; radiation-tolerant compute later
6. OperatingTerminals and gatewaysThe existing Starlink terminal line
7. PlannedAI1 final assemblyAbout 150 kW of solar array per satellite
8. PlannedDevelopment and testQualification and environmental testing

The Gigasat Factory covers 11 million square feet on about 1,000 acres, more floor area than the main building at Giga Texas. It is built to make AI1 orbital data center satellites and most of what goes into them, starting with a 10 GW a year solar cell plant. SpaceX is targeting 1 GW a year of orbital AI compute by the end of 2027.

The solar plant sets the ceiling on the constellation: each AI1 carries about 150 kW of array, so the constellation can only add power as fast as Bastrop makes cells. No other satellite maker runs from solar ingot to finished spacecraft at one site.

The supplier ring

The Bastrop Supplier Ring

Few suppliers sit nearby yet: Bastrop assembles and packages, and the silicon arrives from Europe and Asia.

• United States
• Europe
• Taiwan, multiple or undisclosed

The ring maps 26 suppliers. It was built for the Starlink terminal and packaging lines before the Gigasat announcement, so it is a first cut: 6 entries are confirmed STMicroelectronics partnerships, and the rest are inferred from the equipment and materials those lines require. The 4 solar entries cover polysilicon through cell equipment.

The confirmed silicon comes from far away: STMicroelectronics co-designs the phased-array chips, fabricates them in Crolles, Rousset and Malta, and packages them in Muar, Malaysia. Bastrop's panel-level packaging line brings the last of those steps to Texas, with Starlink as ST's lead customer for the process.

Shared across anchors

Suppliers Shared With Other Texas Anchors

Which other anchors buy from the same companies.

Tesla Giga Texas shares the most, 4 entries: STMicroelectronics, Applied Materials, KLA and the robot makers. The solar entries overlap with Tesla's ingot and wafer lines at Brookshire and T1 Energy's G2 Austin cell plant: Hemlock polysilicon, crystal pullers, wire saws and cell-line tools.

Gigasat cells are a space design, radiation-tolerant rather than terrestrial, so the overlap is in feedstock and equipment, not in the cells themselves.

Cedar Creek

Same Reasons, a Few Miles Apart

The Cedar Creek Data Center Cluster on FM 535 is forming a few miles south of the complex for the reasons SpaceX came: cheap, large parcels, an unincorporated county with no city permitting layer, and transmission at the eastern edge of the Austin grid. EdgeConneX, Amazon Web Services and BlackChamber have filed or assembled more than 4,400 acres and $7.8B of disclosed projects there since late 2024.

The two meet at gas turbines. BlackChamber plans a 710 MW gas plant, and the turbine queue for every gas-powered campus is set by hot-section blade casting, which is what the Blades and Vanes Foundry is built to make.

The Texas footprint

Bastrop in the SpaceX Texas Footprint

Bastrop is SpaceX's Texas site for everything that is not a rocket. Satellites and terminals made here fly from Starbase, and the packaging line ties it to the Texas silicon chain from design in Austin to fabrication at Taylor and Gibbons Creek.

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