8 thoughts on “California’s Loss Is Texas’s Gain”

  2. Makes sense since it will be tested and operate out of Boca Chica. Robert Zimmer noted that most of the jobs they cut were in California so it looks like his suspicions were correct.

  3. It makes sense, given the diameter of the launcher, to put the manufacture site in a place closer to Florida which does not require going around the Panama Canal. Given they already have the launch site in Texas, then placing the factory as close to the launch site as possible makes perfect sense.

    I do not share the same enthusiasm about moving the Raptor engine manufacture site however. I also have my doubts on how viable the project will be with Elon managing it remotely. He basically refuses to leave California. I think it will only increase the possibility of failure of the program. Between that and SpaceX missing out on the government money to develop the next generation EELVs I have to wonder how they will achieve this monster rocket of theirs.

    1. Not false about the assembly plant being built in TX instead of in San Pedro. But engineering and engine production will be staying in Hawthorne – at least until further notice.

      1. …but I’d say Rand’s lede “*all* of Starship development from the Port of LA.” is hyperbolic, if not flat out wrong.

        We can argue about the semantics of “development”, but its use implies more than just final assembly/integration.

  5. Curious to see if SpaceX’s legion of progressive snowflake millenial employees is willing to leave the safe space of the People’s Republic of Los Angeles for the real world of Texas.

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