Tag: SpaceX

Billionaire founder and CEO of SpaceX Elon Musk is so mad at the governor of California that he's moving the company's headquarters from Hawthorne, a suburb of Los Angeles, to SpaceX's Starbase compound at Boca Chica.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Billionaire Elon Musk says he's moving the headquarters of SpaceX and social media company X to Texas from California.

SpaceX wishes to dramatically increase the number of Starship-Super Heavy launches it conducts out from the company’s Boca Chica production and testing complex, otherwise known as Starbase.

As Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin prepares for the first launch of its New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral this year, the company has taken time to voice concerns over future launches of competitor SpaceX’s massive Starship and Super Heavy, also planning to launch from the Space Coast.

According to numbers provided to Cameron County by SpaceX, the company's Starbase rocket production and testing complex at Boca Chica is having a big economic impact, generating more than $800 million in state and local government capital income and indirect business tax revenue, for instance.

Shorebird nests were damaged by SpaceX’s June 6 Starship launch from Boca Chica, with shorebird nesting activity declining overall since the company began testing and launching rockets at the site, according to a report just released by the Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program, or CBBEP.

The environmental group SaveRGV announced this week that it had sent a letter to SpaceX providing notice of intent to sue under the Clean Water Act over what SaveRGV says are “numerous ongoing violations of federal law” at the company’s Boca Chica/Starbase launch site.

SpaceX's fourth Starship orbital test flight, which launched from Boca Chica/Starbase at 7:50 a.m. Thursday, proved the most successful so far, Starship S29 transmitting data up until the moment of splashdown in the Indian Ocean off the northwestern coast of Australia 66 minutes after launch.

The Federal Aviation Administration announced Tuesday that it has approved a license authorization for SpaceX's fourth Starship orbital flight test from Boca Chica/Starbase.

SpaceX says it’s shooting for June 5 for the fourth orbital test flight of Starship, which will blast off from the company’s Boca Chica Starbase launch site.