Tag: SpaceX

Unlike SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's first two live Starship presentations at the company's Boca Chica/Starbase production and testing complex, members of the media were not invited to an April 4 presentation at the site, only SpaceX employees.

Conservation organizations and indigenous groups are suing Texas Parks and Wildlife to block a controversial land swap with SpaceX one month after commissioners approved the deal.

SpaceX wants to deposit Starships in the Indian Ocean as many as nine times over the next 12 months, all of them launched from Boca Chica, according to an 119-page environmental assessment (EA) from the Federal Aviation Administration.

Starship S28 and Super Heavy B10, loaded with more than 10 million pounds of propellant, lifted off from Boca Chica/Starbase at 8:25 a.m. Thursday for SpaceX’s third Starship orbital flight attempt, after being granted permission by the Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday.

Starship S28 and Super Heavy B10 lifted off from Boca Chica at 8:25 a.m. Thursday for SpaceX’s third Starship orbital flight attempt, after being granted permission by the Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday afternoon, and loaded with more than 10 million pounds of propellant in both stages.

As of Wednesday afternoon, everything appeared to be in place for SpaceX’s third Starship orbital flight attempt from Boca Chica Thursday morning — all that was missing was the required launch license from the Federal Aviation Administration.

SpaceX says a third orbital flight attempt with Starship-Super Heavy, launching from Boca Chica, could happen as soon as next Thursday “pending regulatory approval.”

During a special meeting Monday, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission voted unanimously in favor of a resolution to authorize TPWD Executive Director David Yoskowitz to pursue acquisition of about 477 acres near the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge-Bahia Grande Unit in exchange for approximately 43 acres from Boca Chica State Park.

The Federal Aviation Administration announced Monday that it has closed a SpaceX-led mishap investigation into the Nov. 18 Starship-Super Heavy orbital flight attempt from Boca Chica.

Elon Musk’s rocket-launch and spacecraft company SpaceX is planning a five-level office in South Texas.