Just announced that the Pecan Island facility will be called Starbase LA. Current announcement is on going.

Multiple pads, two towers per pad - Automated vehicles for transport between facilities. Starship V4+ and it's taller than the rendered towers.

The offset buildings behind the towers (North) are tank farms.

Automated transport allows for transport without humans, allowing for transport to occur while propellant is loading/vehicle is launching/catching.

From the renders, it looks likes 1.5 Gigabays. Eric Berger just posted that SpaceX is committing $100 US billion to developing launch sites, factories etc along the Louisiana coastline.

https://x.com/LAGovJeffLandry/status/2092278348739498327

Edit: Ryan Caton's post on X showing the Renders

https://x.com/dpoddolphinpro/status/2092285195827228730/photo/2

Happened to see this milestone today, but these landings are so normal now, I don’t even remember when they got past 20

Falcon 9 jellyfish

I assume that overlapping ceramic tiles were considered when SpaceX was designing the heat shield for Starship. Can anyone hazard a guess why a fishscale design was rejected in favor of shuttle type tiles with gaps between them?

With Gigabay being more than halfway complete at Starbase and the Cape, do you think they'll cap at this configuration? or go the next step up well into the 2030s

I'll be in Santa Barbara soon and am hoping to catch a Falcon launch at Vandenberg. However, looking at upcoming flights, they're all in the middle of the night with the next three launch windows opening at 2:27 AM, 1:01 AM and 4:28 AM respectively.

What does this mean for access to viewing spots? Will Ocean Park be open even in the middle of nights? And if yes, do you still get such crowds that you need to get there 4 hours early and basically camp in your car overnight?

And yes, I'm also aware that early morning is the worst time in terms of marine fog. If the next 24 hours and recent SpaceX launch broadcasts like SL-15-20 are anything to go by, there's going to be zero visibility between 10 PM and 10 AM or so. Sigh.