SpaceX Wants to Fuel Its Mars Ambitions With Its Own Gas Pipeline

SpaceX has spent years trying to reinvent rockets.

Now it's coming after midstream.

The aerospace giant plans to begin construction next month on an eight-mile natural gas pipeline dubbed "Starpipe" that will feed its Starbase launch facility in South Texas, according to filings reviewed by Reuters.

The pipeline is expected to be operational by January and marks the latest step in Elon Musk's increasingly ambitious plan to control nearly every link in the Starship supply chain.

Starship burns liquid methane—a lot of it.

Each launch consumes…