Starbase —
from sand to Starship pad in five years.
The earliest verifiable signal on Musk’s buildout — county permits and capex filings, tracked first.
21 sites · 131 milestones · every figure sourced.
What just landed
Fresh satellite frames
Recent milestones
- 2026-05
~70 Cybercabs staged in outbound lots (no customer deliveries confirmed)
- 2026-05
Flight 12: maiden launch from OLM-B (Pad 2), first Block 3 / Starship V3[src]
- 2026-05-15
Launch: Dragon CRS-2 SpX-34[src]
- 2026-05-12
Launch: NROL-172[src]
- 2026-04
Cell phase 2 building permit filed: 200K sqft new addition (Tesla Energy Operations direct contractor)[src]
Musk Empire
21 sites · monthly to quarterly satellite captures · methodology →
⚡ Tesla
7 sites
Before · ESRI Wayback
Now · ESRI World Imagery2026-05-15Gigafactory Texas
Austin, Texas
Cortex
Austin, Texas (inside Giga Texas parcel)
Before · ESRI Wayback
Now · ESRI World Imagery2026-05-15Gigafactory Nevada
Sparks, Nevada
Before · ESRI Wayback
Now · ESRI World Imagery2026-05-15Gigafactory Shanghai
Shanghai, China
Before · ESRI Wayback
Now · ESRI World Imagery2026-05-15Gigafactory Berlin
Grünheide, Germany
Before · ESRI Wayback
Now · ESRI World Imagery2026-05-15Fremont Factory
Fremont, California
Before · ESRI Wayback
Now · ESRI World Imagery2026-05-15Gigafactory New York
Buffalo, New York
🚀 SpaceX
6 sites
Before · ESRI Wayback
Now · ESRI World Imagery2026-05-15Starbase Launch Site
Boca Chica, Texas
Starbase Factory
Boca Chica, Texas
SpaceX McGregor
McGregor, Texas
Before · ESRI Wayback
Now · ESRI World Imagery2026-05-15SpaceX HQ
Hawthorne, California
Before · ESRI Wayback
Now · ESRI World Imagery2026-05-15Cape Canaveral
Cape Canaveral · SLC-40, Florida
Before · ESRI Wayback
Now · ESRI World Imagery2026-05-15Vandenberg SFB
Lompoc, California
🧠 xAI
2 sites
Before · ESRI Wayback
Now · ESRI World Imagery2026-05-15Colossus 1
Memphis, Tennessee
Colossus 2
Southaven, Mississippi (also Memphis warehouse acq.)
Data updated 2026-05-27 · Progress estimates based on satellite imagery, official announcements, and public filings. Methodology →
Announced
5 projects · groundbreaking not started
Before · ESRI Wayback
Now · ESRI World Imagery2026-05-15TERAFAB
Austin, TX (Giga Texas North Campus)
Before · ESRI Wayback
Now · ESRI World Imagery2026-05-15Gigafactory Mexico
Santa Catarina, Nuevo León
xAI × HUMAIN (Saudi)
Saudi Arabia (specific city TBD)
Before · ESRI Wayback
Now · ESRI World Imagery2026-05-15Neuralink Austin
Austin, Texas
Before · ESRI Wayback
Now · ESRI World Imagery2026-05-15Vegas Loop
Las Vegas, Nevada
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Starship Flight 13 NOTAMS released for Mexican airspace, starting July 15th at 5:45pm CDT
Views from the Gantry (7/7/26)
Waiting for Falcon launch at Titusville FL July 3rd 6:45 AM
Blue Origin, for the first time, is expected to raise private capital - raising $10 billion on a valuation of $130 billion. Bezos, 62, has grown fatigued from self-funding Blue Origin
NSF Space Coast flyover update (lots of Florida SpaceX stuff)
Predicting Flight 13 from testing milestones
Starship Test Flight 13 NET Tuesday July 14th according to FAA advisory
Controlled deorbits of satellites could be a good proving grounds for asteroid mining

