Boca Chica beach is near the Starbase facility in Brownsville, Texas, where the Texas constitution reserves beaches as public property. Elon Musk's company SpaceX seeks to control access to the beach.

Starbase was incorporated in May 2025 and is the base of a rocket program that aims to reach Mars. SpaceX employees run the city, which has itself sparked controversy among some locals. Elon Musk hasn ...

It's now within the realm of possibility that SpaceX could be paid in crypto company scrip because Elon Musk is now in control of a company town. Starbase, Texas will become an officially incorporated ...

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SpaceX’s next mission has nothing to do with rockets. Instead, it’s aiming to turn its Starbase facility into a new Texas city. In a post on X on Thursday, SpaceX chief Elon Musk shared a letter from ...

SpaceX is quietly standing up a volunteer fire department to serve the sprawling launch-and-manufacturing Starbase complex, tightening its control over emergency response at a site known for rapid — ...

The newest piece of infrastructure coming to Starbase, Texas, isn’t a launch mount or a booster. It’s a water pipeline, and who can hook up a tap (and on what terms) will shape the definition of ...

DALLAS — On Tuesday, the richest man in the world Elon Musk announced he would be moving the headquarters of two of his multi-billion dollar companies--SpaceX and X-- from California to Texas. In a ...

The area surrounding Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket launch site in southern Texas has officially become a city after a vote by residents in the area on May 3. The city, called Starbase, has been slated to ...