SpaceX to Build Falcon Rockets in Southern California

Impressive technology — important missions — but what a poor choice for a location; the multiracial morass of Los Angeles, California.
SPACEX PLANS to build its massive BFR rocket boosters and spaceships inside a cavernous new factory at the Port of Los Angeles, officials announced this week.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti confirmed Monday during a State of the City address that SpaceX will produce its Big Falcon Rocket at a site at the Port of Los Angeles.
“This vehicle holds the promise of taking humanity deeper into the cosmos than ever before,” Garcetti added on Twitter.
SpaceX and port officials have discussed the aerospace company’s use of a 19-acre waterfront parcel at the harbor since 2015, and the parties wrapped up lease negotiations last month. The Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners on Thursday approved the agreement with SpaceX.
SpaceX’s huge new rocket will tower nearly 350 feet (106 meters) tall and span 30 feet (9 meters) in diameter, according to information presented by company founder Elon Musk last year.
The reusable vehicle will come in two pieces.
A booster stage, powered by 31 methane-fueled Raptor engines will produce nearly 12 million pounds of thrust and be capable of returning to Earth for propulsive vertical landings like SpaceX’s existing Falcon rockets. An upper stage that doubles as an interplanetary transporter will carry people, supplies, satellites, and huge propellant tanks that can be refilled in space.
Bruce McHugh, SpaceX’s director of construction and real estate, told the Board of Harbor Commissioners on Thursday that the 19-acre site at Berth 240 “is the perfect spot to build our big rocket.”
SpaceX examined potential factory locations in Southern California, Florida, Louisiana and Texas before settling on the Port of Los Angeles location, according to Michael DiBernardo, the port’s deputy executive director of marketing and customer relations.

McHugh said SpaceX needed a location with access to the water because the BFR is too big to transport on trucks, as the company currently moves its Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy boosters. A barge will pick up the BFR booster and upper stage, also known as the Big Falcon Spaceship, and transport them to their test sites and launch pad.
The huge vehicle’s design is still in the early stages, and SpaceX revamped the design of its mega-launcher over 2016 and 2017, ending up with a smaller rocket than Musk originally envisioned. But the BFR — in its current iteration — dwarfs all rockets currently flying in dimension and capability, and would measure roughly the same size as NASA’s Saturn 5 moon rocket, while producing nearly twice as much thrust at liftoff as the Apollo-era launcher developed in the 1960s.
“We don’t know exactly what we’re building, but we know it’s big, and we know it can’t be trucked,” McHugh said Thursday. “So that’s why this spot has enough land, it’s near the water, and we know that we could produce our product there.”
SpaceX already leases land at the Port of Los Angeles as a base for the company’s recovery fleet, which deploys into the Pacific Ocean to pick up Dragon capsules returning from the International Space Station and retrieve rocket boosters and payload fairings from Falcon 9s launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base northwest of Los Angeles.
SpaceX’s headquarters and current manufacturing site is in Hawthorne, California, around 15 miles (24 kilometers) north of the port.
McHugh said SpaceX intends to build an 80,000-square-foot (7,400-square-meter), 80-foot-tall (24-meter) fabrication hangar at the Berth 240 location within about a year.
“When we add onto it, it’ll wind up being a total of a 200,000-square-foot (18,600-square-meter) building, assuming everything works out for us,” McHugh said. “We are building a ship that’s never been built before. We are doing research and technology that’s never been done.
“We’re also doing this in a parallel path. We are working on the means and methods of how we’re going build this product. So far, it’s going to be a composite-type rocket.”
McHugh said approximately 20 engineers and 20 production technicians are currently working on the BFR project. By the time the BFR is ready for full production, in roughly three-to-five years, McHugh estimated around 700 people will be working at the new factory.
“Elon wants it way faster, but I think it’s three-to-five years,” McHugh said.
Known for setting optimistic schedules, Musk set an “aspirational” goal last year to have the BFR ready for a robotic mission to Mars by 2022, and a human voyage by 2024. Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s president and chief operating officer, said last month the BFR could be ready for test flights into Earth orbit in 2020.
McHugh said the rockets built at the Port of Los Angeles will be shipped through the Panama Canal to Cape Canaveral for launch preparations.
SpaceX officials have said in recent months that early atmospheric tests of the spaceship part of the BFR could begin next year, likely at the company’s launch base in South Texas, which is still under construction.

“The ship part is, by far, the hardest because that’s going to come in from super-orbital velocities, like interplanetary Mars transfer velocities, moon transfer velocities,” Musk said last month. “These are way harder than coming from Earth orbit.”
The spaceship’s high-speed returns will stress the craft’s heat shield and structure beyond the temperatures and pressures experienced by a capsule re-entering the atmosphere from Earth orbit, or by a descending rocket stage.
“Testing that ship out is the real tricky part,” Musk said Feb. 6. “The booster, I think — I don’t want to get too complacent — but I think we understand reusable boosters. Reusable spaceships that can land propulsively, that’s harder. We’re starting with the hard part first.”
The spaceship design Musk revealed in September had a cluster of six Raptor engines — he later said the ship could have seven engines — and methane and liquid oxygen tanks containing almost a quarter-million pounds (1,100 metric tons) of cryogenic propellants for deep space burns and landing maneuvers. The spacecraft would stretch 157 feet (48 meters) long and have an internal pressurized volume exceeding that of an Airbus A380 jumbo jet, enough room for 40 passenger cabins.
Musk revealed a tool that will be used to build the BFR’s interplanetary spaceship in an Instagram post April 8.
SpaceX will pay the Port of Los Angeles $1.38 million per year under its lease agreement for the Berth 240 location.
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Source: Spaceflight Now
Elon Musk is a fraud and so is Space-X. He is just one of so many
jewish front men, ala Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, etc. Per chance
one is bedazzled by these young jewish boy / man wonders, so that
small attention is paid to the lies and scams – as usual, laundering
money and conning /stealing it as well. Do a modest amount of
looking, and you won’t escape the conclusion. If they really could
do all the things claimed, they wouldn’t have to fake it, and fake
it they do – in spades. Start: http://mileswmathis.com/musk.pdf
If you need more, then do more. But this ‘article’ has less to do w/
“multiracial morass” than deep state/jew morass. Read b-4 judge.
Article is 3 years old, so I’ll assume nothing’s happened since but a lot of pie-in-the-sky, lawyering and political posturing.
E.g. https://spacenews.com/spacex-drops-plans-for-port-of-los-angeles-facility-again/
FYI: Musk is not jewish.
LA is not a good place because of its taxation (e.g. 9.5% Sales) raising production costs, and the people you’re forced to hire from the gang-ridden communities. Even if they’re decent folk, the threats and damage done by BLM, crip-bloods, and MS13 types distracts and tires them from intricate work and proper down-time for such work. And with Whites, what good will be a chief engineer or plant manager if homeless are defecating on his front lawn, crypto-adult mexi illegals are beating up his kid after school, and officials refuse to help because they’ve been hamstrung by Garcetti?
Miles Mathis is disinfo, you can understand this by 5 minutes worth of reading of his page. By the way, Musk went to a jewish school as a kid “by mandate of his father”.
Uhhh … Titus, let me explain something to you. You cannot “understand” as you put it – ANYTHING – by 5 minutes of reading. To say so is ridiculous, and shows you have your mind already made up, or pre-conceptions which will cloud your judgment. I do not always agree with (all) of his theories or conclusions, but anybody can say anything about anyone else (such as mudsling) but that don’t make it so. Clearly we live in a world of deception, fraud, and disinfo, as you put it. Jew disinfo for the most part, but also of course govt. agency disinfo, etc. I’ve already read – IN FULL – over 30 pdfs from his site, some multiple times, and also sections or passages multiple times, like a student. Having… Read more »
Miles Mathis is an outright crank. He’s even claimed that Adolf Hitler was a Jew and a homosexual, and contended that “all the Nazis were crypto-Jews” (emphasis his). For a specimen of his Alice-in-Wonderland logic, consider this excerpt from his paper on Hitler: “As with almost everyone else we have studied, Hitler — as it turns out — was gay. . . . The mainstream has admitted it for years, although I wasn’t aware of it until now. See this report from The Guardian back in 2001, publicizing the meticulously researched book of respected German historian Lothar Machtan, Hitler’s Secret: the Double Life of a Dictator. There, we find out the head of the Storm Troopers, Ernst Rohm, is also now admitted to have been gay. It is implied in… Read more »
“…but what a poor choice for a location; the multiracial morass of Los Angeles, California.” It is a perfect location for Musk; he is probably getting a cheap, tax free lease deal, compliments of a large, Enemy controlled government entity, the City of Los Angeles. Elon Musk is a facile manipulator of Enemy wealth redistribution programs, and has become fabulously wealthy thereby. Meanwhile, his various enterprises hemorrhage investor cash. So yes, Musk may be considered a fraud, as averred by Rommel 41, however, he is mistaken, in my opinion, in citing Miles Mathis’ fantasies as evidence of same. Mathis’ diatribes usually start out with a fairly plausible sounding historical narrative which quickly degenerates into his make-it-up-as-you-go genealogical claptrap, inevitably winding-up showing subjects to be descendants of the British aristocracy, which… Read more »
From the website link that “Rommel14” posted:
“His mother’s maiden name is Haldeman. That is a prominent Jewish name. Elon is also a Jewish name, meaning “oak” in Hebrew.”
The surname “Haldeman” is also a non-Jewish German name, like a number of other surnames. Also, if “Elon” is a Jewish name, then so is “David” – so clearly based on that “reasoning” then David Duke is a Jew.
Faulty reasoning that is easily exposed. “Rommel14” must also believe the Earth is flat as well. With people like him, no wonder we’re losing.
I hope my graphic inspiration will help me move into new social classes.