SpaceX Spending $280M on Bastrop Facility

SpaceX is investing $280 million in a Bastrop factory, and the State of Texas is granting the company $17.3 million in return. This expansion is expected to create more than 400 jobs.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott added, “I congratulate SpaceX on their more than $280 million investment in this Texas-sized expansion of their semiconductor R&D and advanced packaging facility in Bastrop, which will be the largest of its kind in North America.”

Over the next three years, SpaceX’s Bastrop facility will expand by one million square feet to produce Starlink kits and their component parts, including advanced packaged silicon products. Starlink satellites provide high-speed, low-latency broadband internet to more than five million people and businesses in over 120 countries and territories. The proposed project includes printed circuit boards (PCBs), a semiconductor failure analysis lab, and advanced packaging for panel level packaging (PLP). Once complete, the Bastrop facility will be the largest PCB and PLP facility in North America.