No — due east or east-northeast launches are not expected to be practical or permitted as primary trajectories from the planned SpaceX Starbase Louisiana site.
nola.com
The upcoming facility (announced August 25, 2026) is a large Starship-focused spaceport in coastal Vermilion Parish near Pecan Island / Freshwater Bayou Canal (southwest of Lafayette, on the Gulf of Mexico marshland). It is intended as a high-cadence site with multiple pads, supporting thousands of launches per year, with construction targeted for 2027 and first launches as early as 2029.
arstechnica.com
Launch direction constraintsPreferred / practical azimuths are southerly, roughly in the 115°–190° range (southeast to south-southwest). These keep the vehicle over open Gulf of Mexico water for a long stretch during ascent, with only a distant potential overflight of sparsely populated areas of Mexico (e.g., near the Yucatán or further) far downrange. This geometry supports polar, near-polar, and sun-synchronous orbits—useful for certain Starlink/AI satellite constellations—and mirrors the open-water approach used from Starbase Texas.
kpel965.com
Due east (~90°) or east-northeast would generally head over or near populated parts of Louisiana (including toward the New Orleans area) and other land. Experts note this would be unpopular and problematic for range safety/overflight reasons, so it is not viewed as a viable primary corridor.
nola.com
Official comments highlight the site's access to a “wide range of trajectories” and its southward-facing Gulf Coast location as advantages (especially versus purely equatorial paths from Texas or Florida). However, detailed geographic analysis consistently emphasizes the open-water southern corridor as the key safe path, with eastward options constrained by land and population. Final FAA licensing, range safety, and environmental approvals will define exact allowable azimuths, but the site's geography strongly favors south-oriented launches over due-east or east-northeast ones.
arstechnica.com
In short, the Louisiana Gulf Coast location is well-suited for high-inclination (polar-type) missions via southern trajectories but is not set up like Florida's Eastern Range for routine due-east launches.
Good inference, thank you. (The near-polar orbits were a direction I did not think of.)