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Texas has hosted NASA s Mission Control since 1965.
And going still further back, the annals of UFO lore record an apparent Aurora, Texas, interstellar crash in 1897.
Now, it is to Texas that Elon Musk s SpaceX moves its Starlink broadband satellite factory and deep-space rocket operations, which go to Austin and Boca Chica, respectively.
Texas, we have lift-off: It s been confirmed that Starlink will be based in Texas, while Elon Musk tries to rename Boca Chica as Starbase.
The Skylink s the limit
A recent SpaceX job posting suggests a new state of the art factory in Austin will make its Starlink kit – that is, dishes and antennas to connect users to the satellites, Wi-Fi routers, and antenna mounting hardware.
Elon Musk wants to make a new city called Starbase at SpaceX s launch facilities in Texas.
(Photo : Britta Pedersen-Pool/Getty Images) SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk poses on the red carpet of the Axel Springer Award 2020 on December 01, 2020 in Berlin, Germany.
Musk explained on his Twitter account that that Starbase would cover an area much larger than SpaceX s Texas facilities in Boca Chica Village.
An area much larger than Boca Chica Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 2, 2021
He then followed up with another tweet, which read: From thence to Mars and hence the stars.
It s uncertain what the CEO means by this statement. But it may suggest that the company is trying to expand. Boca Chica, formerly known as Kennedy Shores, is simply a quiet fishing community. Musk s use of the term city means that the site could be slated for accelerated expansion.
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It looks like Elon Musk has his sights set on his own town in Texas. The Tesla CEO tweeted on Wednesday morning about creating a city called ‘Starbase’ in Texas.
Elon Musk is all over Texas
SpaceX already has a significant presence in Texas, with a rocket testing site in McGregor as well as its launch facility at Boca Chica. And in 2020 Tesla announced plans to build a Gigafactory in Austin.
SpaceX made history on Wednesday as Starship SN10 successfully completed its sub-orbital test flight and landing at the South Texas launch site before exploding.