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According to the
Houston Chronicle, Musk s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. is building his deep space rocket in Boca Chica, a town along the Gulf Coast of Texas, near the Mexican border. And he s thinking it s time for a name change.
Musk tweeted on Tuesday, Creating the city of Starbase, Texas, adding, From thence to Mars, And hence the Stars. The tweet was likely in reference to possibly changing the name of Boca Chica to Starbase, Tesla Gigafactory in Austin Texas after Winter storm Uri at sunset above the concrete structure stamping area
Tesla Gigafactory in Austin Texas after Winter storm Uri at sunset above the concrete structure stamping area.
Musk Keeps Sparring With Regulators as Biden Builds Cabinet
Bloomberg 2/3/2021 Dana Hull
(Bloomberg) Elon Musk has a long history of run-ins with the local, state and federal officials who oversee his growing empires at Tesla Inc. and SpaceX. The world’s richest person shows no signs of changing his ways as U.S. President Joe Biden takes office and bolsters the regulatory agencies defanged by his predecessor.
In the past week alone, Musk has tangled with the Federal Aviation Administration over a December rocket test flight that ended in flames and begrudgingly agreed to recall some Tesla cars at highway-safety officials’ urging. And while he announced Tuesday he was taking a break from Twitter the platform that previously got him fined by the Securities and Exchange Commission Musk had already used his favorite social-media megaphone in the preceding days to roil stocks of companies from Etsy Inc. to Shopify Inc. during a retail-trading frenzy.
Second Starship prototype launch ends in fireball for SpaceX
Wire reports
For the second time in two months, a test flight of SpaceX s Starship, the spacecraft founder Elon Musk intends will one day be sent to Mars, ended in an explosive landing.
The craft flew to an altitude of about 6 miles and then was meant to reorient itself to prepare for a landing. It was meant to look like a controlled belly flop, according to a story in the New York Times.
Instead, when the engines fired to switch back to a vertical orientation, one engine appeared not to property ignite and the prototype hit the ground at an angle, smashing into a fireball and leaving a cloud of smoke rising over the test site in Boca Chica, Texas, the Times reported.