Investing.com - Ilon Musk wants to rename the place of Boca-Chik in Texas, where his company Space Exploration Technologies builds a prototype rocket for flight to Mars, to the Loud - Starbase, writes Yahoo (Nasdaq: Aaba) Finance.
On Tuesday, Mask shared his thought on Twitter, writing: "Creating the city of Starbase in Texas. From there for Mars, and then - to the stars. "
The authorities of the Cameron District received notifications about the discussion of the change of the name of Boca Chik, which is not far from the Mexican border, where Spacex spacecraft prototypes are being developed. The company also tests rockets in the same state of Texas, in McGregor, and future starships whose prototype is created in Boca-Chik, someday, according to the mask, they will have to give people to the moon and Mars.
In addition, Spacex develops in Texas and another project - Starlink, providing the 5th generation Internet broadcasting system using a satellite system in the United States, Canada and the UK, which is already available in some parts of these countries. The KXAN television station in Austin is just a set of engineers on open vacancies in Starlink.
The development of the town of Boca-Chik will be largely dependent on solving communal problems, and in particular, water supply, as so far there is no own public water supply system, and water is brought to trucks from neighboring Brownsville and store in tanks in each house. As for the registration process of the name change, it is regulated by local laws of Texas and Cameron County.
One only by renaming the city Activity Mask in Texas is not limited to: In addition to the activities of Spacex, his company Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) builds a factory for the production of a future electric pickup in East Austin Austin. Also, the Private Foundation of the mask moved to Austin from California, and Mask himself also made a statement of moving to Texas, although he still spends most of the time in California.
Later, Mask wrote to Twitter that on March 3, the prototype of the superheavy rocket Spacex StarShip SN10 will be launched, which can later deliver the mission to Mars. Run will be held at 9:00 EST.
- During the preparation of Yahoo Finance materials
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