By Jeffrey Kluger, Published by Time, 17 April 2023 Time was, nobody gave much thought to the town of Boca Chica, a little community at the toe of Texas, hard up against the Gulf of Mexico. Distinguished mostly by its proximity to the city of Brownsville, the county seat of
By Josie Ensor, Published by The Telegraph, 9 April 2023 Rocket designed to take man to the Red Planet is ready for test launch in days, says billionaire's firm SpaceX is on the cusp of sending its Starship - the most powerful rocket ever built - into orbit, in the
By Passant Rabie, Published by Gizmodo, 17 June 2022 SpaceX's next generation of Starlink satellites could pose an even greater threat to astronomical observations. Unobstructed views of space are increasingly at risk as SpaceX builds out its Starlink megaconstellation in low Earth orbit. And with the company’s plans to deploy
By Kristine Liao, Published by Popular Science, 11 June 2022 The FAA is expected to decide by June 13 on whether the Starship can launch from Boca Chica. After years of development, the SpaceX Starship is rumbling to life for its first big launch. But before the 164-foot-tall rocket can
By Jeff Foust, Published by SpaceNews, 28 May 2022 WASHINGTON — NASA is starting a study to reexamine the viability of space-based solar power, a long-touted solution to providing power from space that may be getting new interest thanks to technological advances and pushes for clean energy. In a presentation
By Mike Wall, Published by Space.com, 29 April 2022 The FAA has repeatedly pushed back the estimated release date of the final report. We'll have to wait at least another month to see the results of the U.S Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) environmental review of SpaceX's Starship program. The FAA
By Justin Bachmann and Sergio ChapaPublished by Bloomberg, 6 April 2022 Company failed to provide requested info, according to letterElon Musk’s firm is seeking to launch new Starship rocket SpaceX’s application for an expansion of its South Texas launch site was suspended by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers after
By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 4 April 2022 Brig. Gen. Stephen Purdy: Seeing Starbase 'gives you a lot of ideas of what the future could be' COLORADO SPRINGS – Brig. Gen. Stephen Purdy was in Boca Chica, Texas, last month visiting Starbase. That is SpaceX’s launch and rocket manufacturing
