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SpaceX bought two former Valaris oil rigs to build floating launchpads for its Starship rocket – CNBC
Elon Musk’s SpaceX bought two deepwater oil rigs last year and is converting them into floating launchpads for its Starship rocket.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX bought two deepwater oil rigs last year and is converting them into floating launchpads, to support the enormous Starship rockets that the company is developing.
The rigs are in the Port of Brownsville, near SpaceX’s Starship development facility in Boca Chica, Texas.
The rigs have been renamed Deimos and Phobos, presumably in homage to the Martian moons.
Starship is the enormous rocket that SpaceX is developing to meet Musk’s goal of launching cargo and as many as 100 people…
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