SpaceX To Shift Starship Work From California To Texas

SpaceX is reportedly shifting its work on prototypes of its next-gen "Starship" launch vehicle from Los Angeles to Texas. The news comes less than a week after the aerospace company announced its plans to lay off 10% of its 6,000-person workforce to tackle its more ambitious projects. An anonymous reader shares the report from Space.com: In a statement, SpaceX said it was now planning to build prototypes of its Starship vehicle, the upper stage of its next-generation reusable launch system, at its site in South Texas originally designed to serve as a launch site. An initial prototype version of that vehicle has been taking shape in recent weeks at the site in advance of 'hopper' tests that could begin in the next one to two months. A shift to South Texas, industry sources said, could be a way to reduce expenses, given the lower cost of living there versus the Los Angeles area. However, that region of Texas has a much smaller workforce, particularly in aerospace, compared to Southern California.

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Re:That's what happens

[serviscope_minor]

That's what happens when liberals raise taxes, attack businesses, and generally fuck everything up...

Yes without taxes it would be practical to transport constructed rocket prototypes to the testing range in Texas. Damn librulhs they're even affecting physics with their taxes.

Re:That's what happens

[meglon]

It's interesting that really stupid people continue to talk about California as if it was run by republicans. California kicked most of it's state republicans to the curb some odd years ago, and got the state back on track. I realize you might have missed that if the only echo chamber you hear is fauxnews, but it's reality.

Here's an old posting, with pictures to help you out because you don't seem to be able to read... or at least, haven't bothered to read in the past 6-8 years. https://www.businessinsider.co...

On the other hand, if you want to see truly fucked up... check out Kansas. https://www.latimes.com/opinio... Republicans there have fucked that state up so badly they can't even afford to keep schools open, and that's even with Kansas leeching money off blue states, you know, like California. California has to have a higher tax because of all the leeching red states that suck money from everyone just so they can have some borrowed (or stolen) boot straps to pull on.

As for that mass exodus from California.... a few interesting numbers: 2017 - 130,000 more left the state for other states, 220,000 more births than deaths, and 185,000 people moved to the state from outside the country.... for a total of an additional 275,000 more people for the year. People without college degrees were more likely to move out of state, while the state added 9,000 more people with graduate degrees than left. So, they gained over twice the number that moved out of state, and increased the education average in doing so. Sounds like a win-win, because stupid doesn't solve problems.

Right now you really should be concerned a lot more with Kansas being totally fucked over than California, then maybe move on to most of the other red states who routinely come in on the really piss poor side of pretty much every bad demographic there is.