Trump's border wall could sever Elon Musk's SpaceX Texas launchpad
The SpaceX port that Elon Musk is building in Boca Chica, Texas, for launching commercial rockets to Mars, is at risk of being cut in two by Donald Trump's US-Mexico border wall.
A map drawn up by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shows the proposed route of the fence between Mexico and the US severing the SpaceX South Texas Launch Site, Bloomberg has reported.
The 50-acre (20-hectare) spaceport is currently under construction at Boca Chica Village near the city of Brownsville, and is among four of the company's spaceports ? others are located in Florida and California.
Proposed wall "cuts right through" SpaceX TexasÂ
The remote Texas location is intended to be used for commercial launches from the US, including the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets. But the proposed route of the border wall would severely hamper these efforts, and has triggered concern from democrats, according to Bloomberg.
"This issue with SpaceX is that the fence cuts right through their property and that's a problem," said California congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard.
Representatives are now lobbying for the SpaceX site to be spared from the wall route, ahead of the scheme's final approval on 19 February 2019.
SpaceX refuses to commentÂ
SpaceX and Musk, meanwhile, are reportedly refusing to comment on the situation about the Texas site.
Bloomberg added that company spokesman James Gleeson confirmed that the DHS and US Customs and Border Protection had visited the Te...
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