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.
Investor Brief
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.
Ownership
Parent Entity
Capex
Regulatory Regime
Anchor Tenants
Latitude Advantage
Launch Azimuth Range
Employees
Country
🇺🇸United States
Region
North America
Established
2,015
Launches / Year
0
Years Active
11
Strategic Position
29.6075° N, 95.1581° W
Azimuth: Horizontal — runway-bounded; orbital ops not flown from site
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.
Future Milestones
- 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
About
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.
Key Features
FAA-AST licensed horizontal-launch spaceport co-located with Ellington Field
Anchor tenants: Axiom Space HQ + station manufacturing, Intuitive Machines HQ, Collins Aerospace EVA facility
Phase 1 ($19M) infrastructure complete; Phase 2 ($55M) under development
Located minutes from NASA Johnson Space Center — unique JSC-adjacent commercial campus
Three runways including 9,001-foot main runway
Rockets That Launch Here
Companies Operating Here
Orbit Types
Notable Launches
Intuitive Machines IM-1 'Odysseus' mission control operated from on-site facility (2024)
Axiom Ax-1, Ax-2, Ax-3 private astronaut missions trained and managed from on-site HQ
Collins Aerospace next-gen EVA suit (xEMU successor) development on-site
No orbital or suborbital flights to space from site — manufacturing/ops campus