• Elon Musk's SpaceX prevailed in an election over the weekend to turn Starbase into a city that's now led by employees.
• Bobby Peden, who has spent more than twelve years working for the Musk's rocket maker, is set to serve as mayor of Starbase.
• The new town includes the SpaceX launch facility and company-owned land covering a 1.6 square-mile area.

Over the weekend, Elon Musk got his new company town along the Texas Gulf Coast. Controlling the city are three SpaceX employees, who all ran unopposed.

As 온라인카지노사이트 News , the election determining incorporation of the city of Starbase concluded on Saturday night, with 212 votes in favor and only six against. Just 143 votes were needed for the measure to pass.

Starbase was victorious in becoming a type C city, which in Texas applies to a previously unincorporated city, town or village of between 201 and 4,999 inhabitants. The city includes the SpaceX launch facility and company-owned land covering a 1.6 square-mile area.

The mayor is 36-year-old Bobby Peden, who has spent more than 12 years working for SpaceX and is currently vice president for Texas test and launch operations. Prior to joining the rocket maker in 2013, Peden was a graduate research assistant at the University of Texas at Austin, according to his

Starbase has two commissioners, both from the SpaceX employee ranks.

One is Jenna Petrzelka, 39, who was an operations engineering manager at SpaceX until July, and now identifies as a philanthropist, according to her application to be on the ballot. She's married to , a vice president of Starship engineering and almost 14-year veteran at SpaceX.

The other commissioner is , 40, a senior director of environmental health and safety for SpaceX who joined the company in 2023.

Musk, who has assumed a central role in President Donald Trump's administration responsible for slashing the size of the federal government, began acquiring land for SpaceX in Boca Chica, Texas, about a decade ago. The first integrated Starship vehicle from the site, known as Starbase, in April 2023, and exploded in mid-flight.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service soon details about the aftermath of the explosion, including that a "3.5-acre fire started south of the pad site on Boca Chica State Park land," following the test flight.

State and federal regulators have fined SpaceX for violations of the Clean Water Act, and said the company had repeatedly in the Boca Chica area. Environmental advocates and indigenous groups have also sued both the Federal Aviation Administration and SpaceX over the company's flight tests and launch activity in the area.

Those groups said in legal filings that SpaceX caused harm to local habitat and endangered species due to vehicle traffic, noise, heat, explosions and fragmentation caused by the company's construction, rocket testing and launch practices.

A SpaceX spokesperson didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

In a on Saturday, the account for StarbaseTX wrote, "Becoming a city will help us continue building the best community possible for the men and women building the future of humanity's place in space."

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