Texas residents vote to rename community near SpaceX launch site Starbase

Texas town home to SpaceX renamed 'Starbase'

Residents in the Texan town voted in favor of turning Elon Musk's Starbase into a city. The move separates the town from Cameron Country, which previously rejected plans to build more housing for SpaceX employees.

Texas residents vote to rename community near SpaceX launch site Starbase

(The Hill) — A community in Texas where a launch site for Elon Musk’s SpaceX company is located voted to incorporate as the city of Starbase on Saturday. Residents of Cameron County, who are mostly SpaceX employees, voted in favor of the move in a 212-6 vote. Musk celebrated the vote in a post on his social media platform X, stating Starbase "is now a real city." Only 143 votes were needed to secure the incorporation of the city, which sits on t…

The longing of tycoon Elon Musk to create a home for his SpaceX space base in Texas, in the south of the United States, came true this Saturday, when voters overwhelmingly backed the city of Starbase.Most of them were the employees of SpaceX, who already reside in this 4km2 territory near Boca Chica Bay in Cameron County, bordering Mexico, who gave the green light to create the city from where Musk will focus his efforts to conquer Mars.Almost 5…

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Members of a South Texas community that has served as the hub of Elon Musk’s rocket launch company, SpaceX, voted Saturday to formally establish a new city called Starbase, fulfilling one of Musk’s long-held dreams.

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A vote Saturday to formally organize 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 favor to 6 against, according to results published online by the Cameron County Elections Department