{"id":149937,"date":"2022-11-11T15:23:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T21:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/spacex-shakes-up-starship-leadership-in-texas-as-push-for-the-rockets-next-milestone-intensifies"},"modified":"2022-11-11T15:23:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T21:23:24","slug":"spacex-shakes-up-starship-leadership-in-texas-as-push-for-the-rockets-next-milestone-intensifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/spacex-shakes-up-starship-leadership-in-texas-as-push-for-the-rockets-next-milestone-intensifies","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX shakes up Starship leadership in Texas as push for the rocket\u2019s next milestone intensifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-shakes-up-starship-leadership-in-texas-as-push-for-the-rockets-next-milestone-intensifies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elon feels that Starship is moving too slow so he is now throwing a lot more resources at it.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/elon-musk\/\">Elon Musk<\/a> earns daily headlines over changes at Twitter, a significant reorganization is underway at his space company\u2019s Texas launch facility.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX president and COO Gwynne Shotwell and vice president Mark Juncosa \u2013 two of the most influential executives at the company aside from Musk himself \u2013 are now overseeing the facility and operations of the company\u2019s Starbase location, people familiar with the situation told CNBC.<\/p>\n<p>Senior director of Starship operations Shyamal Patel is leaving the site to move to the company\u2019s Cape Canaveral facilities, after spending more than two years working on the next-generation rocket in Texas, those people said. Patel was previously based at the Cape, before a promotion and move to Starbase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon feels that Starship is moving too slow so he is now throwing a lot more resources at it. While Elon Musk earns daily headlines over changes at Twitter, a significant reorganization is underway at his space company\u2019s Texas launch facility. SpaceX president and COO Gwynne Shotwell and vice president Mark Juncosa \u2013 two of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}