Starbase was officially formed earlier this month after Elon Musk's aerospace and defense contractor prevailed in a local election.

Before SpaceX’s Starship lost control and exploded over the Indian Ocean during its ninth test flight, the 400-foot-tall megarocket blasted off from Texas’s newest city. Starbase, situated on 1.5 square miles of the Lone Star State’s southernmost tip in the Rio Grande Valley,

Starbase, the fledgling Texas city home to Elon Musk’s SpaceX, appears to be making rapid moves to advance its development. The city has notified some residents it is considering a new zoning ordinance that may require residents to lose access to their property, according to a city memo published by CNBC.