Texas residents sue Elon Musk’s SpaceX saying large sonic booms have broken their houses | EUROtoday

Dozens of house owners are suing Elon Musk’s SpaceX, alleging that sonic booms from rocket testing broken their Texas houses.

The lawsuit was filed final week in federal courtroom by 80 South Texas residents. They accused SpaceX of gross negligence and trespassing from sonic booms that occurred throughout 11 rocket checks between April 2023 and October 2025, in keeping with the Texas Tribune.

Because SpaceX checks concerned rockets that launched and returned, typically the houses confronted extended intervals of damaging noise, in keeping with the swimsuit.

A sonic increase is a wave created by an object transferring quicker than the pace of sound. According to the U.S. Air Force, some sturdy sonic booms may cause injury similar to shattered glass.

SpaceX didn’t reply to the Tribune in regards to the lawsuit. The Independent has additionally reached out to SpaceX.

The residents say that in a Starship rocket launch in 2023, the drive from the 33-engine booster destroyed the launch pad and despatched particles so far as three-quarters of a mile away.

Specific injury to the houses was not included within the lawsuit, in keeping with the Tribune. However, the submitting said that booms may cause injury to partitions, home windows and roofs.

The submitting asks for an unspecified sum of money.

The Federal Aviation Administration in 2025 licensed SpaceX to launch as much as 25 rockets per yr from South Texas, in keeping with the Tribune. That is 5 instances greater than the yr earlier than.

SpaceX has additionally seen large development within the South Texas area in recent times. Company staff based the town Starbase, Texas, in May 2025.

Rocket launches have closed an eight-mile stretch of seaside close to the South Texas launch pad, the Tribune famous. That problem has led to a separate lawsuit about how typically the corporate can shut the world.

SpaceX was based in 2002 and Musk at present serves as the corporate’s CEO. A current submitting with the Securities and Exchange Commission revealed that solely Musk has the ability to take away himself from the corporate.

The SEC submitting comes as SpaceX prepares to supply shares within the firm, which might occur as early as this summer time, in keeping with the Wall Street Journal.