Gwynne Shotwell told reporters last week that SpaceX sold the two oil rigs that SpaceX was converting for launching and landing rockets. Shotwell said they were not the right platform. SpaceX is still ...

Musk also said SpaceX planned to turn two oil rigs into launch platforms about 30 miles off the Gulf Coast. “Over time I think there’s going to be floating spaceports,” he said.

SpaceX paid $7 million for two oil rigs that would be transformed for launching rockets into outer space in Pascagoula. Here’s why it’s no longer happening.

PASCAGOULA, Miss. – SpaceX will not launch rockets from the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the near future, the company’s president says.Two oil rigs had been docked at the Port of Pascagoula for ...

An oil rig in the same class as the ones SpaceX purchased with plans to convert into launch platforms. SpaceX has since dropped those plans and sold the rigs. Credit: ENSCO WASHINGTON — SpaceX ...

The company purchased the oil rigs in 2020 for $7 million and moved the first, Phobos, to Pascagoula in 2021 before moving the second, Deimos, in 2022. “We bought them. We sold them.

A solar storm that swept across Earth on Monday (Feb. 27) forced SpaceX to delay a Starlink launch and temporarily disrupted operations of several Canadian oil rigs.

As it stands, roughly 12,000 offshore oil and gas rigs pepper the world's coastlines. ... carbon capture facilities, and clean hydrogen plants. SpaceX and the U.S. Navy, ...

SpaceX paid $7 million for two oil rigs that would be transformed for launching rockets into outer space in Pascagoula. Here’s why it’s no longer happening.

SpaceX paid $7 million for two oil rigs that would be transformed for launching rockets into outer space in Pascagoula. Here’s why it’s no longer happening.