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# SpaceX in deal for facility in Port of Long Beach
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/spacex-in-deal-for-facility-in-port-of-long-beach/
- Published: 2021-04-28T20:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-04T14:31:05.000Z
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- Tags: Community, briefs, spaceX, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-06 12:37

SpaceX is in a deal to use a marine terminal in the Port of Long Beach for West Coast rocket recovery operations.

The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners approved a new sublease agreement with Elon Musk’s space launch company on Monday.

SpaceX will take over a wharf that was vacated in February 2020 by Sea Launch, a company that sailed a self-propelled ocean-going launch platform and a command ship to the equator for satellite launches. Sea Launch kept the vessels at Long Beach between launches.

Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX will take over the 6.5-acre facility on May 1.

SpaceX can land the first stage of its Falcon 9 rockets on sea-going landing pads for reuse and also recovers its Dragon capsules after ocean splashdowns.

The company had used a site in the neighboring Port of Los Angeles for recovery operations. It also twice backed out of plans to build its Starship rocket in the Port of LA.

Associated Press