![Foust Forward | Don’t mess with Texas space startups]()
At South by Southwest in Austin, space had a surprisingly large presence, with parallel conference sessions and other events on a wide range of topics. That included panel sessions where companies argued that both Austin and Houston were growing hubs of the space economy.
![State Fight: SpaceX brings business to Brownsville, Texas]()
At the outset of the coronavirus pandemic, city officials in Brownsville, Texas, anticipated sales and property tax revenue declines. To their surprise, residential property values and sales tax collections have continued to climb. Much of the credit goes to SpaceX.
![Orbital Outfitters Breaks Ground on Texas Facility]()
The facility is being built by Orbital Outfitters, a company developing pressure suits for commercial spaceflight companies.
![Profile | U.S. Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas), Member, House Appropriations commerce, justice, science and related agencies subcommittee]()
As a senior member of the House Appropriations commerce, justice, science subcommittee, which oversees NASA spending, Culberson is in a good position to help secure the necessary funding for a Europa mission. He might be in an even better position in the near future.
![SpaceX Breaks Ground on Texas Spaceport]()
Work to build the facility will not ramp up until the second half of 2015.
![FAA Awards Spaceport License to Texas Airport]()
The Federal Aviation Administration issued a commercial spaceport license Sept. 17 to an airport in Midland, Texas, the first such license issued to a facility that also hosts commercial passenger airline flights.
![Texas Governor Confirms SpaceX’s Gulf Launch Site]()
Texas is providing about $15 million in funds to support spaceport development.
![FAA Ruling Clears Path for SpaceX Launch site in Texas]()
A plan by Space Exploration Technologies Corp. to build a privately owned launch site just north of the U.S.-Mexico border near Brownsville, Texas, passed a key environmental review.
![Orbital Outfitters Moving To Texas, Building New Test Facility]()
Orbital Outfitters’ new facility will be designed to cater to customers beyond its traditional base in the human spaceflight industry.
![No Environmental Hurdles for Blue Origin To Test in Texas]()
The U.S. government has taken a preliminary step to allow Blue Origin to launch new vehicles from its West Texas launch site through 2019.
![Nitrogen Tanks Explode at SpaceX’s Texas Rocket Site]()
A pair of nitrogen tanks at SpaceX's rocket test facility in McGregor, Texas, exploded.
![SpaceX Test Fires Merlin 1-D-equipped Rocket Core in Texas]()
SpaceX test fired a rocket stage outfitted with nine Merlin1-D engines.
![Texas A&M To Build Payload Carrier for Lynx Spaceplane]()
The carrier will be sized to accommodate up to 12 small scientific and education payloads a flight.
![Texas Leading Candidate for SpaceX 3rd Launch Site]()
Musk expects to make a decision this year about where to locate a commercial spaceport.
![XCOR Picks Texas for New Research and Development Site]()
NEW YORK — XCOR Aerospace, a private company designing a reusable suborbital spaceplane, will open a new test facility in Texas, company officials announced July 9.
![Bolden Visits Dragon at SpaceX’s Texas Facility]()
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden got an up-close look June 13 at the Dragon capsule that in May became the first private vehicle ever to dock with the international space station.
![Dragon Headed for Texas after Historic Flight]()
WASHINGTON — Space Exploration Technologies Corp.’s (SpaceX) Dragon cargo capsule, which returned May 31 from a nine-day demonstration mission to the international space station (ISS), is on its way to Texas for postflight processing.
![Details Emerge on SpaceX’s Proposed Texas Launch Site]()
WASHINGTON — Details about a launch facility Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is considering building in Texas emerged April 9 in a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) document detailing an environmental review that must precede construction.
NASA said March 22 it had selected four Texas firms to perform up to $49 million worth of architecture and engineering services at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, nearby Ellington Field and the Sonny Carter Training Center, and the White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico.
While some Texans are excited that Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is considering the state as the site for a commercial spaceport, company founder and Chief Executive Elon Musk says he has not seen much interest from state officials.
