SpaceX officially can start building its Mars spaceship at Port of L.A.

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The L.A. City Council approved a permit Tuesday that lets SpaceX use a site on Terminal Island at the Port of Los Angeles to build its Mars Starship.

The Los Angeles City Council approved a permit Tuesday that allows the Elon Musk-led company to use a site on Terminal Island at the port to build aerospace parts.L.A. Board of Harbor Commissioners green-lighted the permitSpaceX representatives told L.A. City Councilman Joe Buscaino’s office that the company was interested in the port site because it needed additional manufacturing capacity for its Starship spaceship and rocket booster.

The company is currently building prototypes of the Starship system at its facility near Boca Chica Beach in South Texas. In Southern California, it manufactures Falcon 9 rockets and Dragon capsules in Hawthorne, where its headquarters are. “We are just fired up over this renewed interest,” Buscaino said in an interview this month. “We’re creating a Silicon Harbor where you’re going to have ideas and see before our own eyes the buildout of Starship.”

 

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