SpaceX facilities

SpaceX operates four launch facilities: Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40); and, Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) – both in Florida; Vandenberg Space Force Base Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) in southern California; and, SpaceX Starbase in southern Texas.

Space Launch Complex 40 was damaged in the AMOS-6 accident on September 1, 2016, and repair work was completed by December 2017. Starbase Launch Pad 1 was damaged during the first Starship Launch on April 20, 2023, and repaired in under four months.

In addition, SpaceX uses a suborbital test facility, the SpaceX Rocket Development and Test Facility in McGregor, Texas. It is also where it tests all Merlin and Raptor engines, and flight article Falcon 9 first and second stages. A high-altitude suborbital test facility was under construction in New Mexico, but was abandoned following the switch to flight tests on commercial missions in September 2013.

SpaceX is currently building a second Starship launch pad at Starbase. Also, they are building three new Starship launch pads in Florida: one at LC-39A and two at SLC-37, most recently a United Launch Alliance (ULA) pad for their Delta IV family of rockets. A second Starship plant is also being built in Florida, at the Kennedy Space Center's Roberts Road facility. At Vandenberg, SpaceX has also taken over the former Delta IV pad, SLC-6, and is in the process of demolishing legacy Delta and Space Shuttle infrastructure still located there.

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