SpaceX's Starbase expansion nearly doubles launch site, enabling Pad 1 overhaul and LNG facilities

SpaceX has won approval to nearly double the Starbase launch site footprint, enabling the ongoing Pad 1 redesign, a new flame trench with CFA piles, and space for LNG liquefaction and expanded ground-support infrastructure as part of a lengthy, phased expansion overseen by the US Army Corps of Engineers.