SpaceX is building the Gigasat Factory in Bastrop
This is the manufacturing backbone for Starmind. SpaceX’s plan to build AI data centers in orbit
A full-scale factory designed to manufacture AI satellites at massive scale
The layout shows how vertically integrated this gets:
• AI satellite production
• AI satellite development
• User terminals
• Gateways
• PCB / silicon
• Solar cells
SpaceX is one of the only companies on Earth that can even attempt this because it already has the pieces:
- Reusable rockets to launch them
- Starlink experience to mass-produce satellites
- Laser link infrastructure to move data
- Solar and thermal systems for power and cooling
- And now a dedicated Gigasat Factory to scale AI satellites
The goal is rapid production and deployment of thousands of AI satellites starting as soon as late 2027
Starlink turned satellites into mass-manufactured internet infrastructure
Gigasat will turn satellites into mass-manufactured AI infrastructure