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New York Times • Hank Sanders

Starbase, Texas Officially Incorporates as SpaceX Municipality

SpaceX employees and local residents overwhelmingly voted on May 3 to incorporate the Boca Chica community around the company’s South Texas launch site as the city of Starbase. The move grants SpaceX greater autonomy over local governance, infrastructure expansion and housing development for its operations.

2025-05-03T17:59:40.979073-07:00

NASA Spaceflight

SpaceX Static Fires Ship 35 as Four Starship Boosters Advance Through Testing

2025-05-03T12:18:53.923784-07:00

Space.com

Amazon Launches First Kuiper Internet Satellites, Competes with SpaceX's Starlink

2025-04-28T16:16:02.129632-07:00

Spaceflight Now

Amazon Launches First Batch of Project Kuiper Satellites, Entering Rivalry with SpaceX's Starlink

2025-04-28T10:37:01.742154-07:00

Hype Analysis

Starlink's 2024 Advances: Transforming In-Flight Wi-Fi Connectivity in Aviation

October 17, 2024 - Summary of Starlink's 2024 role in aviation: airlines adopt its high-speed in-flight Wi-Fi, enhancing passenger experience. Read More.

SpaceX News Timeline

Florida Today

SpaceX Launches Falcon 9 on Starlink 6-84 Mission from Kennedy Space Center on Star Wars Day At 4:54 a.m. EDT on May 4, 2025, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 lifted off from Kennedy Space Center, deploying its 6-84 batch of Starlink satellites. Timed for “Star Wars Day,” the mission highlights the company’s sustained launch cadence and ongoing expansion of its global broadband constellation.

2025-05-04T04:02:02.737254-07:00

SpaceX Launches Falcon 9 on Starlink 6-84 Mission from Kennedy Space Center on Star Wars Day

Financial Times

Iberian Blackout Exposes Telco Weaknesses, Drives Starlink Adoption A massive power failure across Spain and Portugal last weekend knocked out traditional telecom networks, forcing emergency services, businesses and airlines to rely on SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet as a resilient backup. The incident underscores satellite constellations’ role in maintaining critical communications during infrastructure failures.

2025-05-03T21:35:18.352150-07:00

Iberian Blackout Exposes Telco Weaknesses, Drives Starlink Adoption

New York Times

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Starbase, Texas Officially Incorporates as SpaceX Municipality SpaceX employees and local residents overwhelmingly voted on May 3 to incorporate the Boca Chica community around the company’s South Texas launch site as the city of Starbase. The move grants SpaceX greater autonomy over local governance, infrastructure expansion and housing development for its operations.

2025-05-03T17:59:40.979073-07:00

Starbase, Texas Officially Incorporates as SpaceX Municipality

NASA Spaceflight

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SpaceX Static Fires Ship 35 as Four Starship Boosters Advance Through Testing SpaceX has four Super Heavy boosters and Starship prototypes in parallel test campaigns at its Boca Chica site, with Ship 35 completing a static fire as it moves toward its first launch. This marks an accelerated build-test cycle aimed at achieving rapid flight cadence.

2025-05-03T12:18:53.923784-07:00

SpaceX Static Fires Ship 35 as Four Starship Boosters Advance Through Testing

texastribune.org

Texas Voters Poised to Approve SpaceX’s Starbase as New Municipality Cameron County residents head to the polls Saturday to decide whether SpaceX’s Boca Chica launch site will be incorporated as the city of Starbase. If approved, officials elected in May must quickly establish services — from policing and fire protection to local taxation — shaping the community’s governance.

2025-05-03T10:34:00.678765-07:00

Texas Voters Poised to Approve SpaceX’s Starbase as New Municipality

Spaceflight Now

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SpaceX Prepares Third Falcon 9 Flight of May to Launch 26 Starlink V2 Minis SpaceX is prepping its third Falcon 9 launch of May, targeting Sunday for the Starlink 15-3 mission from Vandenberg’s SLC-4E. The rocket will deploy 26 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into LEO on a south-easterly trajectory and recover booster B1081 on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You.

2025-05-03T06:52:27.129038-07:00

SpaceX Prepares Third Falcon 9 Flight of May to Launch 26 Starlink V2 Minis

Associated Press

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Boca Chica Residents Vote May 3 on Incorporating Starbase as SpaceX’s Texas City Residents of Boca Chica — many SpaceX employees — will vote May 3 on whether to incorporate their community as Starbase, granting Elon Musk’s rocket company greater autonomy over local governance, development and infrastructure around its South Texas launch site.

2025-05-02T21:39:26.378192-07:00

Boca Chica Residents Vote May 3 on Incorporating Starbase as SpaceX’s Texas City

GeekWire

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Amazon's Kuiper satellites debut distinctive design alongside first full-batch ULA launch Amazon's Project Kuiper has successfully launched its first full batch of low Earth orbit broadband satellites aboard ULA’s Atlas V, revealing a form factor that departs from SpaceX’s Starlink. The constellation targets service launch in late 2025, and mission teams say operations are running “entirely nominal.”

2025-05-02T14:13:54.160230-07:00

Amazon's Kuiper satellites debut distinctive design alongside first full-batch ULA launch

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