SpaceX wants to build an offshore spaceport near Texas for Starship Mars rocket

[Admin]

SpaceX is hiring "offshore operations engineers" to help develop spaceports for its Mars-colonizing Starship transportation system.

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[newtons_laws]

Of course for maximum payload launch benefit a floating launch platform would be towed to the Equator.

 

[Admiral Lagrange]

Of course for maximum payload launch benefit a floating launch platform would be towed to the Equator.

It won't need towed. It'll have it's own thrusters. I doubt very much he'll go any further south than Brownsville. There is some concern about flying a politically neutral flight path.

 

[Eadams]

Is there a.problem launching from international waters?