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STARBASE, Texas – The brand-new town of Starbase sits next to the SpaceX facility on Boca Chica Beach, a narrow sandbar on the southernmost tip of Texas, directly along the border. The surrounding ...
Residents of Boca Chica Village, Brownsville, Port Isabel, and South Padre Island talk about how SpaceX, Elon Musk, and Starbase are changing the area.
SpaceX's newly incorporated company town of Starbase, Texas, is considering adopting a zoning code full of NIMBY red tape.
Before SpaceX’s Starship lost control and exploded over the Indian Ocean during its ninth test flight, the 400-foot-tall megarocket blasted off from Texas’s newest city. Starbase, situated on ...
Just a month after residents in Starbase, Texas, voted to incorporate Elon Musk’s vision of a new city built from the ground up, some are being told they may become victims of eminent domain.
A polling place sign in front of SpaceX's South Texas production facility during the Starbase incorporation vote on May 3. The City of Starbase is now official.
A polling place sign in front of SpaceX’s South Texas production facility during the Starbase incorporation vote on May 3. The City of Starbase is now official. On Tuesday morning, the Cameron County ...
The spaceflight company SpaceX has made itself a new home: Residents of Texas' Cameron County voted on May 3 to incorporate Starbase, Texas, a city located near Boca Chica along the Lone Star ...
SpaceX has met another requirement for a new license that would allow 25 Starbase rocket launches per year. Current regulations only allow for five.
With Starbase, Texas, now officially incorporated, critics warn that turning a company town into an actual city could blur the line between private ambition and public accountability.
People who live near SpaceX's Starbase facility in South Texas voted on Saturday (May 3) to incorporate the Starship launch as a manufacturing hub as a city.
For a few years, a section of land in southeast Texas has been dubbed Starbase. It's where SpaceX houses rocket production sites, launch facilities and employee housing. WSJ reporter Micah ...