Elon Musk’s SpaceX gets a company town in Texas

is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. South Texas voters mostly employed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX have approved a measure to incorporate as Starbase, a new city in Texas’ Cameron County near the company’s Boca Chica Beach launch site on the Gulf of Mexico. The final tally was 212–6 in support of the measure, reports The Associated Press. The election took place following a petition that had gained enough signatures by February to force a vote, in which just 283 people were eligible to participate, according to The Texas Tribune. Last week, an analysis by public journalism collaboration The Texas Newsroom found that three in five of those people were SpaceX employees, and per the Tribune, the city will be led by three people with ties to SpaceX. With the measure approved, SpaceX now stands to gain more control over the launch site. As the Tribune notes, the company has to get permissio ... Read full article.