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# Pecan Island: SpaceX Louisiana Research
- URL: https://www.sanpomedia.com/pecan-island-spacex-louisiana-research/
- Published: 2026-10-09T20:14:35.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-09T23:44:32.000Z
- Author: Sanpō Media

On August 25, 2026, Louisiana and SpaceX announced Starbase Louisiana: a $100 billion launch site on about 125,000 acres of coastal marsh at Pecan Island, in Vermilion Parish. Like most deals its size, it was negotiated in confidence, under more than 30 nondisclosure agreements. Unlike most, much of it stays hidden now that it's signed: the project's records are exempt from the public records law, and the settlement that freed the land is sealed

This paper sets out what is known. What Louisiana gets, what it gives up, and what is promised but not yet guaranteed. What the people of Pecan Island have asked for. What else Louisiana could build. And what a deal good for all three sides, the state, the parish, and SpaceX, could look like.

It doesn't argue that Louisiana should refuse SpaceX, or that space travel is the problem. It asks two questions any honest trade has to answer: is the growth real, and who gets to weigh it?

Every factual claim is linked to its source, so you can check it yourself.

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*Version 3, October 9, 2026\. 45 pages.* You may copy and share this paper freely, complete and unaltered, with its notice. Updates will be posted here.

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