{"id":206039,"date":"2024-02-15T01:38:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T01:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/15\/musk-might-be-searching-for-a-new-place-to-test-spacex-starships\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:21:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:21:51","slug":"musk-might-be-searching-for-a-new-place-to-test-spacex-starships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/15\/musk-might-be-searching-for-a-new-place-to-test-spacex-starships\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk might be searching for a new place to test SpaceX starships"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Elon Musk-founded SpaceX<\/a> today took its first step toward officially dumping Delaware and moving the commercial space exploration company to Texas. Meanwhile, SpaceX registered plans to build a $100 million office in Brownsville, Texas, with construction starting next week.<\/p>\n

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Musk has been feuding with Delaware since a judge in the state\u2019s chancery court voided his $55.8 billion pay package last month, jeopardizing his status as world\u2019s richest man. After the ruling, he pledged to leave the state entirely and has since moved his brain-interface company Neuralink to Nevada. Today\u2019s plan to transfer<\/a> SpaceX\u2019s incorporation to Texas is the next shoe to drop. Musk has already said Tesla<\/a> will move its incorporation to Texas, where the company has headquarters, in Austin. Tesla\u2019s move promises to be more complicated than Neuralink and SpaceX, requiring approval from stockholders.<\/p>\n

Some 350 miles away from Austin, Musk hopes to expand further into Texas. SpaceX registered plans<\/a> yesterday to build a five-story office mezzanine and 1-million-square-foot industrial factory in Brownsville. The area is already home to a production and development center that spans 20 miles and allows for testing of SpaceX Starship rockets, reported the Dallas Morning News<\/em><\/a>. According to the Texas state filing, construction on the SpaceX office is expected to wrap up in January 2025.<\/p>\n

The Morning News<\/em> reported that Musk has been agitating to get a portion of Brownsville and nearby Boca Chica on the Gulf Coast renamed as Starbase. The moniker is a hat tip to the financial investment Musk and his companies have made in the region.<\/p>\n

SpaceX\u2019s Texas filing listed Jin Yi, senior mechanical engineer at SpaceX and a former executive at real estate and management company GID, as the contact on the Brownsville project. Yi did not respond to a message for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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