SpaceX is requesting an election to decide if its Starship rocket site should be incorporated as a city in South Texas. The company is developing and launching the world’s most powerful rocket ...

Voters Approve Incorporation of SpaceX Hub as Starbase, Texas. A South Texas community, mostly made up of SpaceX employees, voted 212 to 6 in favor of establishing a new city called Starbase.

Texans vote to turn SpaceX headquarters into city named Starbase. Voters, many of them SpaceX employees, decided to create a municipality with a small local government in the once-quiet Boca Chica ...

A special election in Cameron County, Texas has officially established Elon Musk's SpaceX facility as "Starbase," a new city, with voters overwhelmingly approving the incorporation measure by a ...

With the incorporation of Starbase, the area now has a city council, mayor and commissioners. Voters unanimously elected a mayor, Bobby Peden, who works for SpaceX, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Starbase, Texas, headquarters of Elon Musk's SpaceX, is officially a city following a resident vote. Most Starbase residents, primarily SpaceX employees, voted in favor of incorporation. Some ...

Voters walk to a polling place at SpaceX’s South Texas facility to cast a ballot in the Starbase incorporation vote on May 3, 2025. Credit: Michael Gonzalez for The Texas Newsroom ...

McALLEN — Nearly 10 years after SpaceX, Elon Musk’s effort to colonize Mars, began operating in a small community in Cameron County just a few miles inland of the Gulf Coast, employees who ...

Starbase, Texas, headquarters of Elon Musk's SpaceX, is officially a city following a resident vote. Most Starbase residents, primarily SpaceX employees, voted in favor of incorporation. Some ...

Starbase, the SpaceX site, is likely Texas’ next city. What happens next? City leaders, who will be elected in May, will have just a short window to decide what services to provide, like police ...