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Sep 13, 2026
Alex PearlmanHOST
Elon-
Mrs. PearlmaniaHOST
And when we get back from this break, I'm gonna tell you about Elon Musk's new company town, Starbase.
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Alex PearlmanHOST
Okay, Mrs. P, before we went to that break-
Mrs. PearlmaniaHOST
Yeah
Alex PearlmanHOST
... you said that Elon Musk is bringing back company towns with something called Starbase.
Mrs. PearlmaniaHOST
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John BatchelorHOST
And the federal government is eager to be cooperative.
John BatchelorHOST
There was a very bad situation under the Biden administration at Boca Chica, as I recall.
John BatchelorHOST
Fish and wildlife were always invariably turning up to inspect the local streams.
John BatchelorHOST
And there was even a point where they were negative about Boca Chica because I think one of the initial launch pad blasted concrete into the wetlands around and they were worried about wetlands being damaged by concrete.
John BatchelorHOST
It was a very abstract argument.
John BatchelorHOST
However, now we come to 195 approximate square miles of Louisiana, and SpaceX is aware that the environment will be part of the conversation.
Doug MessierGUEST
And basically that would limit the ability of the government to, really review the site to require that SpaceX do particular things to mitigate their impact on that site.
Doug MessierGUEST
And it would very much speed up the process.
Charlie SpearsHOST
That is undergoing kind of a refactoring of how they're going to build.
Charlie SpearsHOST
And then the longer timeline down in Abilene and Starbase, Texas, Those are probably going to be re-approached.
Charlie SpearsHOST
So what about this Rocket team? Because these are not the same type of people.
Charlie SpearsHOST
Elon hired basically a half dozen prominent people from the Falcon and Dragon teams.
David BarnardGUEST
All very interesting questions.
David BarnardGUEST
So I actually grew up in South Texas in Brownsville, near South Padre Island, Boca Chica, Starbase, where Elon is now launching all the rockets.
David BarnardGUEST
So it used to be like, where are you from? Like the tip of Texas, never heard of it.
David BarnardGUEST
Now I just say, you know where Elon's doing all the crazy stuff in South Texas? That's where I'm from.
David BarnardGUEST
So I grew up like swimming and surfing and fishing all around where Starbase is currently located.
David BarnardGUEST
And then do I have a formal education? No, but yes.
David BarnardGUEST
So I actually studied sound recording technology, which was kind of a weird degree plan.
PatrickHOST
Site grading and foundations come first so that tower and tank work can proceed in parallel.
PatrickHOST
The same sequence used at Starbase Texas now starts with data already gathered on local soil and storm loads.
PatrickHOST
Each new pad increases the number of vehicles that can be stacked and tested at once, shortening the overall calendar between flights once reuse cycles are running.
PatrickHOST
Storm-hardened utilities and backup power feeds cut weather downtime in a region that sees frequent Gulf storms.
Etienne RosasGUEST
And when they're looking for answers and something to be a part of that actually respects their voice and that they can, you know, see as a democratic option, we will be there to capture that energy and to use it to create the actual system of governance that we deserve.
David GriscomHOST
So what is the relationship of Starbase, Ben, to the community of Brownsville? So Starbase is what Musk has now gotten his company town to be called.
David GriscomHOST
It has a government that is made up exclusively of high ranking employees in his organization.
David GriscomHOST
I know that they're trying to basically throw out the last remaining because it was the vast majority of it was employees of his.
David GriscomHOST
and they were told that they'd be welcome to continue their lives.
David GriscomHOST
They're finding out that that may no longer be the case.
David GriscomHOST
Just talk a little bit about Starbase's kind of relationship to the Valley.
Etienne RosasGUEST
Well, Starbase has always been a corporate town.
Brett KingHOST
Um, but that's gonna be a, um, again, a, you know, attempt at reusability.
Brett KingHOST
It'll be or- an orbital flight, so the Starship for the first time will go into orbit, then de-orbit and come down near, um, Starbase in, in Texas.
Brett KingHOST
So this technology-
Rob TercekHOST
You know, when I first heard this idea-
Scott MortonGUEST
I was, you know, one of the first people to join Starship.
Scott MortonGUEST
I think I was the first software engineer down in Boca Chica, Texas, known, known as Starbase.
Mario GabrieleHOST
Yes.
Scott MortonGUEST
And, um, and at that point, the program was really kind of this, like, backwater kinda like not the pers-- you know, everyone really wanted to work on Falcon at that time, and I was kind of one of the, the crazy ones that would go and wanna go work on early Starship, you know, at the very beginning.
John FawcettHOST
So, some jobs now coming to Louisiana.
John FawcettHOST
The rocket company plans to build a site in Vermilion Parish, marking it the second Starbase campus, and the fourth SpaceX launch location in the United States.
John FawcettHOST
The site construction will start in 2027 and allow for launches by 2029.
John FawcettHOST
Elon Musk predicted in an announcement video that the star base in Louisiana would eventually create probably 10,000 really exciting jobs in the state.
David MantiHOST
The trip home could take several months, which is understandable given that it's the biggest and most powerful rocket in the world.
David MantiHOST
Starship launched from Starbase, Texas on July 24th.
David MantiHOST
It was the 13th test flight, but was the first to survive an hour-long space-skimming flight and remain floating and intact.
David MantiHOST
Starship really needs to work in order to fulfill CEO Elon Musk's dream of making humans an interstellar species.
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