SpaceX vying for two Starship launch sites in Florida

Elon Musk has long hinted SpaceX’s Starbase outside Brownsville — the current focal point for the company’s Starship — would become primarily a research and testing hub for the revolutionary mega-rocket but with missions to the moon and Mars launching from Florida . Now, two studies of environmental impacts on Florida launch sites back up the notion.

Starbase rising: Rapid expansion, growing pains at SpaceX’s South Texas rocket city “I think what we should probably expect is that we do the kind of the development launches here” at Starbase, he said. “Test anything new here, build the rockets and then most of the operational launches would be from the Cape.” SpaceX had previously said it plans to launch at least six Starship missions from Starbase this year.

'Texas has to win': New Texas space commissioner discusses state’s booming space business The Space Force’s study of two possible Starship sites on Cape Canaveral began in February. It’s proposing a deal to lease one of two existing space launch complexes to the company “to ensure capabilities necessary to launch and insert payloads into space.

‘It’s not going to be as sexy’: Boca Chica looks toward a SpaceX future less lofty than it’d hoped When chatter about Starship launches from Florida gained public notice nearly two years ago, Louis Balderas Jr., who’s been recording operations at Starbase 24/7 on his LabPadre YouTube channel, said: “Anything that goes to the moon or Mars is definitely not happening here” and “It’s not going to be as sexy being R&D. It won’t be the true gateway to Mars.

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FAA to conduct new environmental review for SpaceX's Starship operations in FloridaMichael Wall is a Senior Space Writer with Space.com and joined the team in 2010. He primarily covers exoplanets, spaceflight and military space, but has been known to dabble in the space art beat. His book about the search for alien life, 'Out There,' was published on Nov. 13, 2018.
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