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Alexandro Gonzalez-Hernandez paints a mural depicting Elon Musk in downtown Brownsville. The Mural will be part of a SPaceX themed Pop-Up gallery exhibit.Jessica Phelps, Staff photographer / San Antonio Express-News
When he’s in town, Elon Musk surely can’t miss neighbor Rosemarie Workman’s frayed “Come and Take It” flag whipping in the coastal breeze.
Workers tinker in the side yard of the SpaceX founder’s temporary home on Weems Street. Across the street, Workman stands on her porch, her gaze gliding past them and the Teslas parked on the street to focus on the South Bay and the bright afternoon sky.
Elon Musk shared a sweet family photo of him with wife Grimes, 32, and
their baby son X Æ A-Xii, aged 10 months, on Twitter on Monday, captioning the post: Starbase, Texas.
The three are gazing at a beautiful bouquet
, both parents sporting stylish sunglasses as Canadian singer Grimes also dons a single bloom in her hair.
Starbase, which the billionaire, 49, refers to, is something he mentioned in a Twitter thread
last Wednesday
. In it, he said he s creating the city of Starbase , near Boca Chica Village in Cameron County, Texas.
This is where he also has a private launch site and rocket production centre for his aerospace manufacturing company SpaceX.
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.