The booster for the latest version of SpaceX’s Starship rocket suffered an internal explosion during pre-launch testing at Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, early on Friday, November 21. This footage ...

STARBASE, Texas (ValleyCentral) — This week at Starbase, SpaceX crews get to work dismantling the Pad 1 launch mount at the launch site. Pad 2’s chopsticks and booster quick disconnects are put ...

Earlier this year, a small group of people — less than 200, most of whom worked for or were otherwise affiliated with SpaceX — voted to make Texas’ newest city a reality. But the Starbase community, ...

A private Chinese firm has successfully launched the world's largest solid-propellant rocket for a second time. The company, Orienspace, launched the gigantic 30-meter Gravity-1 rocket from a barge in ...

On June 18, 2025, at 11 p.m., SpaceX engineers began what was expected to be a routine six-engine static fire test—a ground test for an upcoming launch—at Starbase’s Massey test site. However, Ship 36 ...

SpaceX is quietly standing up a volunteer fire department to serve the sprawling launch-and-manufacturing Starbase complex, tightening its control over emergency response at a site known for rapid — ...

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The idea of a human mission to explore Mars has been studied repeatedly over the past 75 years. More than 1,000 piloted Mars mission studies were conducted inside and outside NASA between about 1950 ...

Texas’ newest city will soon have its own dedicated law enforcement officers, though their uniforms won’t bear any futuristic spaceship imagery. That’s because the lawmen patrolling Elon Musk’s city ...

When is a phantom program not a phantom? Operators of a Selfridge Air National Guard-based educational program might want to direct that question to state House Republicans. The House GOP passed a $78 ...