BREAKING: SpaceX won a court fight to expand Starbase in Texas.
Judge Fernando Rodriguez denied the Center for Biological Diversity's bid to stop the deal, ruling the groups likely have no standing to sue.
The plan trades 712 acres of federal refuge land for 692 acres SpaceX already owns near its Massey Test Site.
The judge said the land is already closed to the public, so the groups lose nothing.
He added that blocking the deal would only set back SpaceX's milestones.
The environmental groups say they will keep fighting the exchange.
Source: Center for Biological Diversity v. Nesvik, S.D. Tex., No. 1:26-cv-00831, 9/21/26.
Bureaucracy has already throttled space exploration, and this article proposes creating a UN-affiliated 'Planetary Stewardship Council'? As a species, there are few things we actually agree upon here on Earth, so how could this possibly advance progress in space?
No. The authors incredible accomplishments aside, as a society we need fewer bureaucrats regulating tethered caps on plastic water bottles and more doers if we want to see even a glimpse of that exciting future so many of us imagined as children.
When the capabilities are there to send NASA astronauts back to the Moon and on to Mars, we will go. We will do so thoughtfully, as we always have, and we will do so for all mankind.
Last week a carmaker pushed a movie ad onto screens of cars their customers had already bought.
We thought that was an invasion of privacy so we passed a board resolution making it effectively impossible to do at REO.
I stopped watching Kurzgesagt years ago after they were exposed and decided to watch this video as I was curious (huge mistake)
Absolutely terrible, they try to cover their ridiculous doomerism with "well maybe it could happen, the NYT was wrong about humans flying!"
Interstellar is VERY hard with not a lot of rewards for the ones onboard but, we tend to forget people exist that will give their whole lives to a mission exploring another solar system and we know how to design the vehicles for such.
We will 100% see interstellar unmanned probe missions in our lifetime and possibly even manned ones. Humans will always push towards the next frontier, this weird anti-space doomerism is not going to stop us
SPACEX: According to local reports, the final stages of a deal are in place for SpaceX to build the new spaceport on Pecan Island in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, and Governor Jeff Landry is expected to make an announcement this month.
SpaceX would gain control of the land through a coastal lawsuit settlement in which ExxonMobil turns over property it has owned since the 1950s. Included in the deal are coastal restoration provisions.
The sparsely populated site offers Gulf and Intracoastal Waterway access for barges, a midpoint location between Starbase and the Florida Space Coast, and natural gas supplies. Only a fraction of the over 130k acers would be used for actual launch infrastructure, with the rest as a buffer.
If this is true, the project will undoubtedly create thousands of jobs. Louisiana has passed liability protections for aerospace operations, and the FAA recently proposed waiving more than a dozen environmental laws for launch licenses.
The location will support orbital launches and is the perfect spot for SpaceX to launch Starmind AI Datacenters to sun-synch orbit.
To be clear, this has nothing to do with her being liberal.
Normal liberals and normal conservatives still want growth and don’t cater to dumb slopulists.
This is an extremist. A terminally online dumb captured by insane de-growth world views.
Happens from all extremists.
This is the first year I have genuinely considered quitting
The end of 2025 was rough and I lacked direction on what mattered and caught myself chasing views
So I refocused on doing things I think are cool
•tip2tip
•streamer u
•becoming a fluent Chinese actor
And, of course, streamer games this weekend
I’m 31 which is older for streamers but the way 2026 has been going I feel like I can do this job for many years to come ❤️
the astronauts who went the farthest from earth (252k miles) and flew around the moon for the 1st time in 50 years deserve it more than politicians just doing their jobs