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SpaceX offered $150,000 for a waterfront home next to its launch facilities, but its owner says that's one-third of the price of similar properties: report
Boca Chica residents told NBC News they felt pressure to accept SpaceX's offers because they'd been…
Kate Duffy
2 mins read
Elon Musk's SpaceX could be ordered to take down its huge Starship launch tower in Boca Chica, the FAA has warned
The FAA said it had yet to complete an environmental review of the Texas launch site, meaning Space…
Grace Dean,Kate Duffy
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Elon Musk is trying to create a new city called 'Starbase' at SpaceX's Texas launch site
SpaceX has already approached Cameron County, Texas, with its plan to incorporate the area into a c…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Aria Be…
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SpaceX doubled down on clearing out the village where it's building a rocket resort by telling residents 'it's not safe' to live there — and some see it as a threat
For Boca Chica residents who rejected SpaceX, the rocket company may "pursue alternative approaches…
Dave Mosher
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Elon Musk's Boring Company wants to dig a tunnel so SpaceX staff can get to their Texas launch site easier, a report says
The Boring Company wants to dig a tunnel from South Padre Island, where some SpaceX staff live, to …
Kate Duffy
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Elon Musk's SpaceX might launch 'Test Hopper' - a prototype for a giant Mars rocket ship - for the first time this week
SpaceX did not immediately questions from Business Insider pertaining to the safety perimeter's siz…
Dave Mosher
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SpaceX is trying to buy an entire village inside its Texas rocket-launch site because it 'did not anticipate' there'd be any 'significant disruption' to residents who live there
"SpaceX recognizes that your close proximity to its operations has offered a unique opportunity to …
Dave Mosher
8 mins read
A stirring new SpaceX animation of Starship launching shows how the rocket company plans to turn Texas into Earth's interplanetary transport hub
"I don't see any fundamental obstacles. We are working with the residents of Boca Chica Village bec…
Dave Mosher
3 mins read
Elon Musk's SpaceX acts 'like they already own everything' as the company reportedly buys up homes in a Texas village, preventing access to public roads and beaches
One SpaceX official reportedly told homeowners the company would pursue a "different route" if they…
Connor Perrett
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Elon Musk says SpaceX is hiring and holding a career day this week - here's where to send your resume
A prototype of SpaceX's Starship, called Mk 1, rocket is seen at the company's South Texas launch f…
Jessica Snouwaert
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Inside the 'awkward,' 'tense,' and 'heated' private meeting between Elon Musk and Texans whom SpaceX is trying to buy out to fully realize its vision to reach Mars
Critical to making such a breakthrough, though, is room to safely build, test, and launch such Star…
Dave Mosher
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Elon Musk says SpaceX will launch its Starship mega-rocket to orbit for the first time this year
SpaceX's Starship rocket is stacked atop its 23-story Super Heavy booster at the company's Boca Chi…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
21 mins read
SpaceX is staking its future on a spaceport in south Texas. The people who live inside it are just one of Elon Musk's problems.
From a business standpoint, the ramifications of a functional Starship would be sweeping and stagge…
Dave Mosher
11 mins read
LAST TOWN BEFORE MARS: SpaceX's most vocal holdouts in South Texas are selling their homes to Elon Musk's rocket company to make way for a Mars spaceport
"He ought to put one of these in his backyard himself within a mile and a half of his house and lau…
Dave Mosher
6 mins read
New FAA documents reveal SpaceX's latest plans for launching Starship prototypes on suborbital flights from South Texas — and potential hurdles to orbit
SpaceX hopes to eventually fly Starships to orbit from Boca Chica, Texas, but it can't do so withou…
Dave Mosher
13 mins read
SpaceX wants to buy a small Texas neighborhood. If residents say no, a nonprofit that supports the company wields a power to force them out.
"Maybe they're trying to figure out how much of it they can acquire, and then if it's a matter of j…
Dave Mosher
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A new SpaceX filing with the FCC suggests Starship rocket prototypes may fly more than 12 miles above Texas within the next 7 months
Elon Musk's aerospace company has worked frenetically in Boca Chica, Texas, to develop Starship to …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Police have issued explosion warnings to residents near SpaceX's South Texas launch site ahead of an experimental launch attempt set for Monday
"There is a risk that a malfunction of the SpaceX vehicle during flight will create an overpressure…
Dave Mosher
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Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket site expansion coincides with a decline in bird numbers in the local area, investigators say
Death from SpaceX's rocket explosions and displacement due to noise may have caused a drop in bird …
Kate Duffy
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The FAA made SpaceX boost its accident insurance 33-fold, to $100 million, before Starhopper's last launch. Here's why.
There's always a risk a rocket may explode during its launch, and that risk is higher for experimen…