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SpaceX launch site approved as new US city of Starbase

Updated on: 05 May,2025 07:57 AM IST  |  McAllen
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With all the votes in, the tally was 212 in favour to six against, according to results published online by the Cameron County Elections Department

SpaceX launch site approved as new US city of Starbase

Elon Musk (centre) seen with a shovel a the Starbase site, before it all began. Pic/X/Tesla Owners Silicon Valley

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The South Texas home of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket company is now an official city with a galactic name: Starbase. A vote on Saturday to formally organise Starbase as a city was approved by a lopsided margin among the small group of voters who live there and are mostly Musk’s employees at SpaceX. With all the votes in, the tally was 212 in favour to six against, according to results published online by the Cameron County Elections Department.

Musk celebrated in a post on his social platform, X, saying it is “now a real city!” Starbase is the facility and launch site for the SpaceX rocket programme that is under contract with the Department of Defense and NASA that hopes to send astronauts back to the moon and someday to Mars.


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