Starbase, Elon Musk's ambitious SpaceX city in South Texas, was officially incorporated in May 2025. It's expanding with housing, shops, and its mayor, Bobby Peden, a SpaceX VP.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s vision for his SpaceX spaceport to achieve city status in Texas may soon become a reality. On Saturday, voters will decide whether to establish Starbase as a new municipality.

Most notably, the new city status may allow Starbase officials, themselves SpaceX employees, to approve beach and park closures during rocket launches instead of requiring permission from Cameron ...

“Starbase, Texas,” Musk wrote on X, a social media platform he owns, “Is now a real city ... of SpaceX Kathryn Lueders appealed to local authorities to grant municipality status to ...

Local residents in South Texas have voted to make Starbase, the headquarters of Elon Musk's SpaceX company, an official Texas city. The area's transition to municipality status was approved in ...

Starbase became a Type C city under Texas ... A post from the new city’s X account said city status would support SpaceX’s mission to build “the future of humanity’s place in space.” ...

City leaders held their first public meetings this week since voters approved the South Texas city’s incorporation.

SpaceX vice president Bobby Peden will now become the city’s mayor, after running unopposed. Incorporation grants Starbase “Type C” city status, and the right to grow from 500 to 5,000 ...

The late-night explosion at SpaceX's rocket development complex in Starbase, Texas, destroyed the bullet-shaped upper stage ...