A look into the SpaceX facility soon to be the company's headquarters

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Elon Musk described the new law, which protects trans youth, as the last straw. He now says X and SpaceX will move their headquarters to Texas.

Tuesday, Elon Musk announced he would be moving the HQ of his $200+ billion company, SpaceX, to Starbase, Texas. But what is Starbase, and where is it?In a post on X, Musk said he'd be moving the social media platform's HQ to Austin, Texas, where his other multi-billion dollar venue Tesla Motors is based.This announcement left many Texans scratching their heads. Most haven't even heard of a town called Starbase, and you'd be hard-pressed to find it on any map.

In 2012, SpaceX picked out a plot of land in the area to construct a launch site. By 2019, the company started flight tests on the site. By 2021, construction was well underway, and SpaceX adopted the name"Starbase" to refer to the facility. In January 2024, Cameron County and Brownsville officials voted to officially rename the area to Starbase, Texas.

 

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