Houston Airport System · Houston, Texas (Ellington Field), United States
Launch Pads
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Annual Launches
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Max Payload (LEO)
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Established
2015
Houston Spaceport at Ellington Field is an FAA-AST licensed urban spaceport (licensed June 2015) developed by the Houston Airport System. It is anchored by Axiom Space (commercial space station HQ and station-segment manufacturing), Intuitive Machines (lunar lander HQ), and Collins Aerospace (spacesuit and EVA facility). The site is a manufacturing and operations campus more than a high-cadence launch facility.
| Region | North America |
| Country | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Coordinates | 29.6075° N, -95.1581° E |
| Ownership | Public–Private |
| Parent Entity | Houston Airport System (City of Houston) |
| Regulatory Regime | FAA-AST Launch Site Operator License (horizontal launch) |
| Latitude Advantage | 29.6°N — Texas Gulf Coast latitude; relevant for air-launched LEO if ever flown, but practical value of the site is JSC adjacency, not launch trajectories. |
| Azimuth Range | Horizontal — runway-bounded; orbital ops not flown from site |
| Employees | ~3,000+ across anchor tenants on-campus |
| Website | https://www.fly2houston.com/biz/houston-spaceport/ |
Anchor Tenants
Active Users
Strategic Value
The only commercial spaceport co-located with a NASA human-spaceflight center, and home to two of the most important commercial-LEO and commercial-lunar primes (Axiom, Intuitive Machines). Less a launch site than the operating heart of the commercial post-ISS economy.
Recent Activity
Phase 2 infrastructure construction ongoing through 2025; Intuitive Machines IM-2 and IM-3 lunar mission ops staged from site; Axiom Station segment AxH1 fabrication scaling.
2026
Axiom Station first module (AxH1) ground integration complete
2026
Intuitive Machines IM-3 and IM-4 lunar mission operations
2027
Collins Aerospace next-gen EVA suit Artemis surface ops support