1+ week, 3+ day ago   (614+ words) The sun rises over marshland along Freshwater City Road near where SpaceX is planning to build a multibillion-dollar spaceport in Vermilion Parish, La., Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2026. President and chief operating officer of SpaceX Gwynne Shotwell speaks during the SpaceX announcement at…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (554+ words) SpaceX's next big expansion will arrive in the form of a new launch site in Louisiana, with production set to begin sometime in 2027. 'Spaceport Of The Future': SpaceX Announces Big Plans For Louisiana Marshland In 2025, SpaceX experienced its most prolific…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1147+ words) First came the rumors. Something about a rocket launch facility on Pecan Island along Louisiana’s coastline in Vermilion Parish. Brooke Broussard overheard two guys talking about it at a bar one night a few months ago. “They said Blue Origin…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (405+ words) SpaceX extended its explosive stock market debut on Monday, climbing 19.6 percent in its first full day of trading… SpaceX is heading into one of the biggest initial public offerings in history with a $1.77-trillion valuation, but some… Elon Musk's Space…...

2+ week, 2+ min ago   (368+ words) A proposed development in Pecan Island is being pitched as an economic win for coastal Louisiana. But for many of the people who already live and work there, the more pressing question is what that growth could cost. In Vermilion…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (185+ words) Gov. Jeff Landry has named Rep. Mark Wright, R-Covington, to a top role at the state transportation department, according to a news release Monday. Wright is a former chair of the House Transportation, Highways and Public Works Committee and has…...

2+ week, 10+ hour ago   (138+ words) America's largest privately owned rum distillery hands its home market to a Louisiana family company — first shipments September 1, 2026 LACASSINE, La., Aug. 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Louisiana Spirits LLC, the distillery behind Bayou® Rum, has appointed Crescent Crown Distributing as its distribution partner in…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (612+ words) A video of Elon Musk and Gov. Jeff Landry visiting Pecan Island recently plays during the announcement of plans to build a SpaceX spaceport on the Louisiana coast south of Pecan Island Tuesday, August 25, 2026, in Abbeville, La. Louisiana Economic Development…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (641+ words) AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented data, weak metadata, slow pipelines, and poor data locality can…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (974+ words) Suswati Basu is a multilingual, award-winning editor. She was shortlisted for the Guardian Mary Stott Prize and longlisted for the Guardian International Development Journalism Award.… SpaceX plans to invest $100 billion building a vast new Starship launch complex in Louisiana, with…...