WE ARE IN THE HEART OF SPACE TERRITORY IN TEXAS AS THE COMPANY DEALS WITH A NEW SETBACK INVOLVING ITS STARSHIP ROCKET, A NEW VERSION OF A BOOSTER FOR THE BIGGEST ROCKET EVER BUILT EXPLODED DURING ...

SpaceX has kicked off a significant demolition and upgrade phase at its Starbase facility, targeting Pad 1 to align it with the advanced capabilities of Pad 2. The work, which began shortly after the ...

Earlier this year, a small group of people — less than 200, most of whom worked for or were otherwise affiliated with SpaceX — voted to make Texas’ newest city a reality. But the Starbase community, ...

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 — ...

Starbase is a city without a police department, but not without police. For months, Cameron County sheriff’s deputies have patrolled the roads and beaches surrounding SpaceX’s sprawling rocket ...

Cameron County commissioners on Tuesday approved an agreement that will turn over control over some parts of Boca Chica Beach to Starbase, the new city near SpaceX's launch site. (Brenda Bazán For The ...

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Texas’ newest city will soon have its own dedicated law enforcement officers, though their uniforms won’t bear any futuristic spaceship imagery. That’s because the lawmen patrolling Elon Musk’s city ...

When is a phantom program not a phantom? Operators of a Selfridge Air National Guard-based educational program might want to direct that question to state House Republicans. The House GOP passed a $78 ...

Starbase is a company town built about 23 miles from Brownsville in South Texas near the U.S-Mexico border that serves as the headquarters of SpaceX. Before the most recent Starship test in May, ...

The South Texas county that’s home to Elon Musk’s SpaceX has cut off water deliveries for dozens of residents in and around the company town of Starbase — the latest example of growing tensions ...

Voters in Cameron County, who are mostly SpaceX employees, approved a measure to officially recognize Starbase as its own town while electing a mayor and city council. Now, officials have approved ...