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Interactive brief on why SpaceX has to make Starship propellant on site instead of buying and trucking it in.
One flight needs ~5,250 tonnes of LOX and methane (~389 tanker loads). Merchant supply runs about $1.7–2.7M per flight; on-site production cuts that to ~$203k. The binding constraint isn’t cost—it’s trucks: at a few hundred flights a year, road delivery stops being workable. The brief walks through power price, supply limits, plant payback (~38 flights/year for a 3-year return), and how Louisiana’s announced campus fits that buildout.
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