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Boca Chica. Boca Chica is an area on the eastern portion of a subdelta peninsula of Cameron County, at the far south of the US State of Texas along the Gulf Coast. It is bordered by the Brownsville Ship Channel to the north, the Rio Grande and Mexico to the south, and the Gulf of Mexico to the east. The area extends about 25 miles (40 km) east ...
Boca Chica Village or Kopernik Shores, formerly Kennedy Shores, is a small unincorporated community in Cameron County, Texas, United States.It was formed in the late 1960s, and is still extant as of 2021, although the village proper has changed greatly since 2018 as SpaceX came to purchase much of the land of the village.
SpaceX Starbase. Starbase is an industrial complex for Starship rockets and the headquarters of the American aerospace manufacturer company SpaceX. [2] Located near Brownsville, Texas, United States, it has been under construction since the late 2010s by SpaceX. Starbase is composed of a spaceport near the Gulf of Mexico, a production facility ...
Starship flight test 1 was the maiden flight of the integrated SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. SpaceX performed the flight test on April 20, 2023. [3] The prototype vehicle was destroyed less than four minutes after lifting off from the SpaceX Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas. [4]
Until 2019, SpaceX was building a new spaceport at Boca Chica Village near Brownsville, Texas for their private use, with an emphasis on commercial space transport work. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] The site is to be optimized for launches of commercial telecommunication satellites that would be launched to the east, across the Gulf of Mexico into ...
SpaceX began constructing the first full-size Starship Mk1 and Mk2 upper-stage prototypes before 2019, at the SpaceX facilities in Boca Chica, Texas, and Cocoa, Florida, respectively. [103] Neither prototype flew: Mk1 was destroyed in November 2019 during a pressure stress test and Mk2's Florida facility was deconstructed throughout 2020. [104 ...
The area is indicated by a large highway marker telling the history of the engagement, installed on the "Boca Chica Highway" (Texas State Highway 4) near where Palmito Ranch originally stood. The Civil War Trust (a division of the American Battlefield Trust ) and its partners have acquired and preserved 3 acres (0.012 km 2 ) of the battlefield.
Boca Chica, Texas Production Site Retired 3 B6.1 December 2021 May 2023 Boca Chica, Texas — Destroyed 1 LOX LTT: 2022 Unknown Boca Chica, Texas Unknown Unknown 1 B7.1 2022 Not yet Boca Chica, Texas Massey's Scrapped 6 HSLH: July 2023 October 2023 Boca Chica, Texas — Scrapped 2 [143] B14.1 March 2024 — Boca Chica, Texas Rocket Garden