<P> SpaceX Headquarters is located in the Los Angeles suburb of Hawthorne, California . The large three - story facility, originally built by Northrop Corporation to build Boeing 747 fuselages, houses SpaceX's office space, mission control, and, as of 2018, all vehicle manufacturing . In March 2018, SpaceX indicated that it would manufacture it's next - generation, 9 m (30 ft) - diameter launch vehicle, the BFR at a new facility it is building on the Los Angeles waterfront in the San Pedro area . The company has leased an 18 - acre site near Berth 240 in the Los Angeles port for 10 years, with multiple renewals possible, and will use the site for manufacturing, recovery from shipborne landings, and refurbishment of both the BFR booster and the BFR spaceship . </P> <P> The area has one of the largest concentrations of aerospace headquarters, facilities, and / or subsidiaries in the U.S., including Boeing / McDonnell Douglas main satellite building campuses, Aerospace Corp., Raytheon, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Air Force Space Command's Space and Missile Systems Center at Los Angeles Air Force Base, Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman, and AECOM, etc., with a large pool of aerospace engineers and recent college engineering graduates . </P> <P> SpaceX utilizes a high degree of vertical integration in the production of its rockets and rocket engines . SpaceX builds its rocket engines, rocket stages, spacecraft, principal avionics and all software in - house in their Hawthorne facility, which is unusual for the aerospace industry . Nevertheless, SpaceX still has over 3,000 suppliers with some 1,100 of those delivering to SpaceX nearly weekly . </P> <P> In June 2017, SpaceX announced they would construct a facility on 0.88 hectares (2.17 acres) in Port Canaveral Florida for refurbishment and storage of previously - flown Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy booster cores . </P>

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