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Musk Bastrop Complex

SpaceX Gigasat Factory · Starlink Terminal and Semiconductor Packaging · Blades and Vanes Foundry · X Corp. HQ · The Boring Company HQ · Snailbrook

The Musk 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 in Bastrop and Travis counties in 2021 and have assembled more than 1,000 acres. SpaceX employs about 1,600 people at the site. The SpaceX Starlink Factory Bastrop at 858 FM 1209 was the first large plant; Hyperloop Plaza at 865 FM 1209 holds the X Corp. and Boring Company headquarters.

The complex is one of the three anchors of the Giga Austin Nexus, alongside Tesla Giga Texas in Travis County and Samsung Taylor in Williamson County. SpaceX unveiled the 11-million-square-foot SpaceX Gigasat Factory here on June 8, 2026, and Elon Musk confirmed the Bastrop Blades and Vanes Foundry in late August 2026.

Facility Map

SpaceX Gigasat Factory

The SpaceX Gigasat Factory is the largest facility on the site: 11 million square feet on about 1,000 acres, larger by floor area than the 10-million-square-foot main building at Giga Texas. Musk unveiled it on June 8, 2026, four days before SpaceX began trading on Nasdaq. The campus is planned to build AI1 orbital data center satellites and the solar cells, circuit boards and electronics that go into them, starting with a 10 GW (gigawatt) per year solar cell plant already under construction. SpaceX is targeting 1 GW per year of orbital AI compute by the end of 2027.

SpaceX Starlink Factory Bastrop

The SpaceX Starlink Factory Bastrop at 858 FM 1209 builds Starlink user terminals and is the largest satellite-related manufacturing plant in North America by output. The plant covers about 1.1 million square feet. In March 2025 Governor Greg Abbott announced a $17.3 million Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund (TSIF) grant toward a $280 million expansion with about 400 new jobs and more than 1 million added square feet over three years. The expansion adds in-house printed circuit board (PCB) production and panel-level packaging (PLP) of semiconductors for Starlink hardware, with production targeted for the end of 2026.

Bastrop Blades and Vanes Foundry

The Bastrop Blades and Vanes Foundry will cast the hot-section blades and vanes that limit how fast natural gas turbines can be built. Musk confirmed the plan on X in late August 2026, saying in-house casting could bring gas turbines online up to 18 months sooner. SpaceX acquired about 830 acres near the Starlink factory between March and June 2026. No operating date has been announced.

X Corp. and The Boring Company

X Corp. (formerly Twitter) moved its official headquarters from San Francisco to Bastrop in late 2024, giving the Hyperloop Plaza address (Building 2, 865 FM 1209) in California court filings. Musk announced the move in summer 2024, and X used an East Austin office park as a temporary headquarters while the Bastrop building was finished. xAI acquired X Corp. in March 2025, SpaceX acquired xAI in February 2026, and xAI was renamed SpaceXAI in July 2026, so X Corp. now sits inside SpaceX. X real estate director Nicole Hollander said that "X plans to significantly grow its Texas footprint, including opening new offices and hiring additional employees." A safety support center operates at the site.

The Boring Company moved its headquarters and engineering operations from California to Bastrop in 2021, the first Musk company on FM 1209. It shares Hyperloop Plaza with X Corp. and the Boring Bodega, a food market, bar and community space. Texas regulators fined The Boring Company $11,876 in 2024 for environmental violations at the Bastrop site.

Snailbrook

Snailbrook is an unincorporated housing development near the Colorado River for SpaceX and Boring Company employees. Plans reported by the Wall Street Journal showed 110 initial homes; Bastrop City Manager Sylvia Carrillo-Trevino has said the land could hold about 10 times that. The Ad Astra school, funded by a Musk nonprofit, opened near the compound. Growth depends on wastewater service: under an agreement among the City of Bastrop, SpaceX and the utility Corix, wastewater from the Musk properties on FM 1209 and FM 969 goes to the city's new $32.6 million treatment plant, with the connecting lines expected in early 2026. Residents and local officials have raised concerns about traffic, wastewater and environmental impacts; local rush-hour commutes have roughly doubled, from about 20 to 40 minutes.

Place in the SpaceX Texas Footprint

Bastrop is the SpaceX manufacturing site for hardware other than rockets. The other Texas sites and the silicon partners connect to it as follows:

• SpaceX Starbase (Boca Chica, Cameron County): SpaceX headquarters and Starship production and launch; Starlink and future AI1 satellites built at Bastrop launch on Starship from here.
• SpaceX McGregor (McLennan County): Raptor engine production and testing, and a possible customer for turbopump castings from the Bastrop foundry.
• Tesla Giga Texas and the Terafab Research Fab: Tesla designs the AI5, AI6 and AI7 chips; SpaceX plans to package radiation-tolerant orbital chips, including its D3 design, at Bastrop.
• Samsung Taylor and the Terafab Production Fab (Grimes County): fabrication of Tesla AI silicon today and of later generations.
• TIE NGMM Center at UT Austin: the Texas Institute for Electronics (TIE) runs the $840 million Next-Generation Microelectronics Manufacturing (NGMM) program funded by DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) for 3DHI (three-dimensional heterogeneous integration) packaging research.
• Cedar Creek Data Center Cluster: EdgeConneX, Amazon Web Services and BlackChamber campuses along FM 535, about five miles away, sharing grid infrastructure and construction labor with the complex.

Outlook

The next milestones for the complex fall in 2026 and 2027:

• Starlink PCB and panel-level packaging lines reaching production by the end of 2026.
• Two AI1 prototype satellites launching in early 2027, and Gigasat reaching production volume by the end of 2027.
• Starship flying often enough to launch about 6,500 AI1 satellites a year, against a Starlink fleet of about 10,500 satellites in June 2026.
• State environmental filings and an operating date for the Blades and Vanes Foundry.
• Wastewater service that lets Snailbrook grow to house the larger workforce.

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