SpaceX Wins Court Approval: US Court Allows Starship Launches Continue Despite Environmental Concerns in South Texas

How SpaceX turned a Texas marsh into the world’s most watched spaceport

EDITOR’S NOTE: Starbase is SpaceX’s massive rocket development site and the home of Starship — the vehicle Elon Musk envisions as humanity’s path to Mars and that many in the U.S. civil space program see as a way back to the moon. But Starbase started as little more than an impossible stretch of empty land […] The post How SpaceX turned a Texas marsh into the world’s most watched spaceport appeared first on SpaceNews.

SpaceX wins court approval: US court allows Starship launches continue despite environmental concerns in South Texas

A US court supports Space Exploration Technologies Corp. plans. It dismisses a lawsuit against the Federal Aviation Administration approval. This allows Starship rocket operations to continue in South Texas. The court finds the FAA properly assessed environmental impacts. Conservation groups had concerns about wildlife. The ruling enables SpaceX to proceed with its space exploration goals.

US judge rejects lawsuit challenge to SpaceX launch site over risks to wildlife

FAA ruled to have satisfied obligations in granting approval for expanded SpaceX operations next to wildlife refugeA US district court judge on Monday rejected a suit by conservation groups challenging the Federal Aviation Administration approval in 2022 of expanded rocket launch operations by Elon Musk’s SpaceX next to a national wildlife refuge in south Texas.The groups said noise, light pollution, construction and road traffic also degrade th…

SpaceX Files for 25 Launches from Texas and Flight 11 Completing Static Fires

SpaceX has an environmental Assessment (EA) filing with the FAA, dated September 2025, does not specify an exact or even approximate launch date for Starship Flight 11 (also referred to as Integrated Flight Test 11 or IFT-11). It focuses primarily on environmental reviews for airspace closure updates to support additional orbital launch trajectories and Starship ...