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 — ...

Voters in Cameron County, who are mostly SpaceX employees, approved a measure to officially recognize Starbase as its own town while electing a mayor and city council. Now, officials have approved ...

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SpaceX employees are more likely to be injured while working at Starbase than any of its other manufacturing facilities, according to company worker safety records reviewed by TechCrunch. Starbase, a ...

The newest city in the Rio Grande Valley isn't really a "city" in any traditional sense. Yes, it has residents and, yes, it has elected officials. But it also is home to sleek, towering rockets that ...

Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. To start with a brief programming note, I'll be off the rest of this week and early next week for some YIMBY-adjacent travel. That means ...

Against a South Texas twilight sky, Elon Musk's giant Starship blasted off from Starbase for the 11th time Monday, aiming to skim space as it flew halfway around the world. For a second-straight ...

Starbase is a company town built about 23 miles from Brownsville in South Texas near the U.S-Mexico border that serves as the headquarters of SpaceX. Before the most recent Starship test in May, ...