Starbase, Texas is headquarters
Elon Musk announced on July 16, 2024 that SpaceX would move its headquarters from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, and the move became official that December. The community around the launch site incorporated as the city of Starbase on May 20, 2025. Starbase is where SpaceX builds and flies Starship, and it is the headquarters SpaceX listed when it went public in June 2026.
Hawthorne, California is a major campus
Hawthorne, near Los Angeles, was SpaceX's headquarters from 2008 until 2024 and is still one of its largest factories, where Falcon 9 rockets and Dragon capsules are built.
Other SpaceX sites
SpaceX test-fires Merlin and Raptor engines in McGregor, Texas, makes Starlink dishes in Bastrop, Texas, and runs Starlink engineering in Redmond, Washington. Falcon 9 launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. SpaceXSI, the company's artificial intelligence unit, trains its models on the Colossus supercomputers in Memphis, Tennessee.
Timeline
- 2002 March 14: Elon Musk incorporates SpaceX; its first headquarters is in El Segundo, California.
- 2008: SpaceX moves its headquarters to Hawthorne, California.
- 2014 August: SpaceX confirms Boca Chica, Texas, as its South Texas launch site.
- 2024 July 16: Elon Musk announces the headquarters move from Hawthorne to Starbase.
- 2024 December: The move to Starbase becomes official.
- 2025 May 20: The city of Starbase is incorporated.
