SpaceX's Starship gets closer to launch—but the future of its Texas Starbase is in doubt

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SpaceX's Starship gets closer to launch—but the future of its Texas Starbase is in doubt
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SpaceX may have won the battle to launch Starship test flights from Starbase, but during the fight, Texas may have lost its claim on future, historic flights to Mars

SpaceX cleared another hurdle in its quest to launch its Starship, the world’s most powerful rocket, when

Despite the conditional approval for SpaceX, which still needs a launch license for orbital flights, the future of the rocket complex in Boca Chica Beach is less certain than it may seem.

Starship Serial Number 20 and Super Heavy Booster 4 are seen at SpaceX Starbase before stacking on February 9, 2022. The full rocket will be larger and more powerful than the Saturn V that took astronauts to the moon. “It’s deja vu all over again,” says Jim Chapman, a board member of the local environmental group SaveRGV , which is suing the state of Texas over the spaceport at Boca Chica.

The South Texas site seemed poised to lead the way to Mars—then Musk addressed a question from a reporter about SpaceX’s construction of a new launch site at Kennedy Space Center. Musk, awkwardly forthright, then addressed “the future role of Starbase.”

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