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.
If he said it on Twitter it must be all above board, right?
Richard Speed Wed 3 Mar 2021 // 13:30 UTC Share
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Cryptocurrency enthusiast Elon Musk has attracted scorn after floating the idea of changing the name of Boca Chica, Texas, to Starbase.
The village, established in the late 1960s, and formerly known as Kopernik Shores, is the south Texas launch site of Musk s private space exploration company, SpaceX. The firm first announced its plan to start construction there in 2012 [PDF].
Authorities in Cameron County, where the village is located, noted an approach (PDF) by SpaceX regarding the incorporation of Boca Chica into the City of Starbase, Texas, but in a statement Judge Eddie Treviño Jr said: If SpaceX and Elon Musk would like to pursue down this path, they must abide by all state incorporation statutes.