SpaceX has completed a major expansion of its South Texas launch site with the opening of “Starfactory,” a roughly one-million-square-foot manufacturing hall designed to produce Starship rockets at industrial scale. Company engineers say the new facility could eventually turn out one vehicle a day—equivalent to 365 Starships a year—far surpassing historical U.S. launch-vehicle production rates. The heightened manufacturing push comes as the company works to overcome a string of technical setbacks. Starship’s upper stage was lost on three consecutive flights in January, March and May, interrupting progress toward orbital refueling tests and other milestones needed for lunar and Mars missions. SpaceX plans to resume flight testing on 24 Aug. with the program’s 10th launch, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time from Starbase. A successful mission would clear the way for in-orbit demonstrations of a Starlink dispenser and thermal-protection tiles and would bolster confidence in “Version 3” hardware slated for introduction late this year. Starship underpins several multibillion-dollar NASA contracts, including crew and cargo transport to the International Space Station and a modified lunar-lander variant for the Artemis III mission. The U.S. space agency and commercial satellite customers are watching closely as the company aims to translate its new manufacturing capacity into reliable flight performance.