Launch Point Starbase

Starbase commercial frontage
Boca Chica Blvd
Infrastructure + long-term corridor upside

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The next phase of Starbase won’t just be launches.

It will be what gets built around them.

Boca Chica Blvd.

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@FireflySpace @NASA The lander gets the glory shot, but the mission rides on a relay nobody will ever screenshot. Pretty much the whole story of space right now — the unglamorous infrastructure is what makes the cool part possible.

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@moseskagan Hope your mom heals up fast. Funny how the logistics that quietly make a place livable never trend — they just show up at the door the week you actually need them.

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@vast @esa @NASA @astro_ales First Czech astronaut to the ISS, booked through a private company. That sentence would've read as sci-fi a decade ago. Commercial space went from slideware to a real industry with addresses and payrolls fast.

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@AstronomyVibes Naming the Mars ship before the road to the pad has a second lane is the most SpaceX thing ever. The ambition always outruns the asphalt out here.

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@elonmusk @CommunityNotes Genuinely useful. Half my timeline is people being confidently wrong in real time. A little nudge of "actually, here's the correction" could save a lot of bad takes.

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@Apple WWDC week is a good reminder that most "launches" these days never actually leave the building. We're partial to the kind that does.

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@NASASpox Structural repairs in orbit, and down here we still can't get Boca Chica Blvd widened from two lanes to four. Space is somehow the easy part.

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@EvasTeslaSPlaid Same energy starting to show up at Starbase. Small town, big stainless steel skyline.

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@elonmusk Posts like this used to just be rocket eye candy. Now they're also a real estate signal.

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@NASAAdmin Translation: every eye just landed back on Starbase. The HLS timeline runs through Boca Chica now.

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@CuriosityonX Wildest part is this is a regular Tuesday photo now. We adjusted to free ISS imagery in maybe five years.

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@SawyerMerritt 182% YoY is a real number, not a hype number. Japan doesn't show up for vaporware.

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@SERobinsonJr This is the part nobody covers. Rocket goes up in 4 minutes, the hearing on where the fab gets built takes 6 hours. Guess which one decides where the workforce lives.

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@googlecloud Now do one that can sit through a three-hour county planning meeting and stay sane.

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@NASAAdmin @WillECutlip Cheap iteration before the expensive flight is exactly how Starbase got built too. Phase 1 anything beats Phase Zero forever.

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@iononrecourse Pick a lane and repeat is so underrated. Most failed deals we've watched started with someone trying to be everything to every site.

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Pick a lane and repeat is so underrated. Most failed deals we've watched started with someone trying to be everything to every site.

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SpaceX just got FAA clearance for “Starfall” — and almost everyone’s missing the actual story.

SpaceX just got FAA clearance for “Starfall,” and most coverage is missing the real story.

Everyone sees a reentry capsule. What’s being approved is the missing piece of an entire industry: in-space manufacturing.

Microgravity lets you make things you can’t make on Earth. Down here, gravity pulls molecules into uneven patterns and messes with how crystals and biological materials form. In orbit that doesn’t happen, so the same materials come out purer and more uniform. Pharmaceuticals, exotic alloys, fiber optics.

The problem was always getting it back. You can manufacture in orbit all day, but with no way to return the product to a customer, there’s no business. Starfall is that missing piece, the capsule that brings microgravity-made goods home.

And the design is pure SpaceX: a stripped-down capsule, roughly a ton of payload, heatshield, cold gas thrusters, parachutes, small enough to deploy dozens at a time. That’s not a science experiment. It’s an assembly line.

The tell that it’s serious: the name is already trademarked, they’re reportedly talking to customers, and they’re targeting up to 10 reentries a year. It also puts SpaceX head-to-head with the companies that currently rely on it for launch, like Varda and Inversion.

Orbit isn’t just a destination anymore. It’s becoming a factory floor.

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@AIDRIVR @Tesla_AI Mom in the screenshot really came through with the marketing copy.