The rocket company has used the ‘star’ prefix nearly a dozen times.
Elon Musk has had enough of SpaceX’s “cool” names for its star stuff.
“We’re cutting back on the use of ‘Star’ as a prefix.
It’s getting a bit silly,” the founder and CEO said on his X social media platform.
“Too much Starshit!”
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The commercial space company has used the “star” prefix nearly a dozen times for its rockets, satellites, infrastructure and payloads.
Starbase city.
Starship rockeTS. Starlink satellites.
Starshield for the military.
Starfactories. Starfall flying discs.
The list goes on.
A look at SpaceX’s stars
Starbase: SpaceX’s company town is South Texas; it’s also the rocket firm’s corporate headquarters and Starship development site
Starfactory: Manufacturing facility for Starship rockets
Starfall: Space capsules that resemble flying discs
Stargaze: System using Starlink satellites to track objects in space
Starhopper: Early Starship prototype
Starlink: Satellite internet service
Starman: A mannequin strapped in a Musk’s Tesla Roadster that was launched to space in 2018
Starmind: Planned constellation of AI data centers in space
Starpipe: A natural gas pipeline for Starships at Starbase
Starshield: Satellite constellation for the government and military
Starship: Megarocket in development in South Texas.
The two latest additions to the lexicon — Starpipe and Starmind — may have pushed Musk over the edge.
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Starpipe is a 16-inch natural gas pipeline SpaceX is building from the Brownsville Ship Channel to the Starbase launch complex.
The roughly 8-mile-long pipeline will be used to fuel Starships.
Construction on Starpipe is set to begin this month, according to documents filed with the Texas Railroad Commission.
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Starmind is a proposed brand for a constellation of up to a million satellites that will be used as artificial intelligence data centers.
Last week, SpaceX’s subsidiary, xAI, applied to trademark the term.
The rocket company also has invoked Nicki Minaj’s “Starships” a few times.
It posted that “Starships were meant to fly” when the rocket was grounded over regulatory issues.
And, the singer visited Starbase in May to watch a Starship launch alongside Musk.
SpaceX isn’t the only one caught up in the “star” crusade.
Ausin-based Starbase Brewing makes a Starhopped India Pale Ale.
And the $17 million Stargaze Apartment complex has sprung up about 20 miles from Starbase, catering to SpaceX workers and visitors.
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Musk’s anti-star remark was a comment on a post about SpaceX having “cool star names for stuff.”
His apparent departure from the theme counters comments he made in January when he called for following in the footsteps of another star-themed entity during a talk with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at Starbase.
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“It’s like we want to make ‘Star Trek’ real … we want to make Starfleet Academy real,” he said to a crowd of military brass and SpaceX workers gathered inside the Starfactory.
“We want to have epic, futuristic spaceships with lots of people in them traveling to places we’ve never been to before.”
In response to Musk’s “too much” post, the internet community did what it does and now there’s a collection of AI-generated images of port-a-johns dubbed “Starshitter” with SpaceX’s black-and-white color scheme.
