“@MuskUniversity Can’t shrink humans, so need big rocket”
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“Catching rocket fairings falling from space has proven tricky, so we made the net really big https://t.co/WMeNZeksRq https://x.com/teslarati/status/1016966736946581504”
“@Teslarati @13ericralph31 @SpacePadreIsle Booster static fire on orbital launch mount hopefully next week”
“Sped up version of today's rocket landing on the Droneship Just Read the Instructions (guess it… https://t.co/0wFgXMgeqZ https://www.instagram.com/p/BVxysOlA04j/”
“Sorry to hear about China launch failure today. I know how painful that is to the people who designed & built it. https://t.co/iOkj6egF3O http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/02/asia/china-rocket-launch/index.html”
“@Teslarati Diess is right. Hydrogen is a staggeringly dumb form of energy storage for cars. Barely worth considering it for a rocket upper stage, which is its most compelling use.”
“@somefoundersalt Exactly. Yglesias is incredibly deceptive and lacks any journalistic integrity. There is nothing monopolistic about rockets, any more than there is about aircraft. Just a matter of making the best product.”
“@wapodavenport @WalterIsaacson @jeff_foust Interesting. Smart move by China. Expendable rockets have no future.”
“RT @AJamesMcCarthy: I’m proud of this one. I brought a solar telescope to Florida to capture a Falcon 9 rocket launch transiting the sun.…”
“Grok app now at rank 5 on App Store! [@cb_doge] BREAKING: Grok just moved to #5 overall app on the US AppStore. Downloads are skyrocketing. Was rank 56 a few weeks ago. You can try it too. Grok is free to download. Also, it is the fastest AI image & video generator out there.”
“Other orgs shd also develop reusable orbital rockets. If an airplane co had reusable airplanes, buying single use airplanes wd seem crazy. https://t.co/OJotlGmPHt”
“@Erdayastronaut Yes, Booster 1 is a production pathfinder, figuring out how to build & transport 70 meter tall stage. Booster 2 will fly.”
“@cleantechnica 2.1 sec 0-60 mph is base model before adding rocket thruster option”
“@vincent13031925 Final decision made earlier this week on booster engine count. Will be 33 at ~230 (half million lbs) sea-level thrust. All engines on booster are same, apart from deleting gimbal & thrust vector actuators for outer 20.”
“@ErcXspace We’re going to try to catch the Super Heavy Booster with the launch tower arm, using the grid fins to take the load”
“High resolution, color corrected, slow motion rocket landing video https://t.co/UTF3Y4xGU3 https://youtu.be/BhMSzC1crr0”
“@Erdayastronaut @NASASpaceflight Booster 7 now returns to high bay for robustness upgrades & booster 8 moves to pad for testing. Next big test is probably full stack wet dress rehearsal, then 33 engine firing in a few weeks.”
“@Everman Yeah, I heard this so many times. In the future, it will seem bizarre that we used to crash rockets into the ocean instead of reusing them.”
“@DeltavPhotos @PortCanaveral That rocket is a hardcore veteran of many missions”
“@lrocket The transition to argon was tricky, but necessary, as krypton is too rare”
“Rocket soft landed in the ocean within 10m of target & nicely vertical! High probability of good droneship landing in non-stormy weather.”
“Fourth rocket arrives in the hangar. Aiming for first reflight in Sept/Oct. https://t.co/TqW8d6Cc3U”
“Falcon 9 rocket now vertical at Cape Canaveral on launch complex 39-A. This is the same launch… https://t.co/wY6dWRcer3 https://www.instagram.com/p/BQWBz9zgOTP/”
“Next rocket landing on drone ship in 2 to 3 weeks w way more hydraulic fluid. At least it shd explode for a diff reason.”
“@dbongino @rustyrockets I’m a little preoccupied rn”
“RT @cb_doge: One of the most beautiful booster landing footages ever. https://t.co/Cw0wbSUxbT”
“@MuskUniversity Fully reusable orbital rockets are the fundamental breakthrough needed for humanity to become a multiplanet species”
“@lrocket @TonyeFreeman Thanks for teaching me so much about rocket engines!”
“@cb_doge That was my primary residence for 3 years building up Starbase from an empty sandbar to rocket factory and launch site”
“@chrispavlovski @dbongino @rustyrockets Maybe worth talking at some point”
“@NASASpaceflight Yup. Next booster will have 33 Raptor 2 engines, with 13 steering. Ship is being upgraded to 9 engines (3 sea-level gimbaling, 6 vacuum fixed) with increased propellant load.”
“@BillyM2k The super weird thing is that Falcon 9 is still the only orbital booster to land or refly after all these years!”
“@RocketLab Sorry to hear about this. Hope you get back to orbit soon. Rockets are hard.”
“@RocketLab360 Will be Falcon 9 size sooner or later”
“RT @DimaZeniuk: Elon Musk's reaction when he made history with the first successful landing of a Falcon 9 booster back on Earth https://t.c…”
“@lrocket Wow”
“@KonstantinKisin There is more to this than meets the eye. If the concern is actually sexual predation in the entertainment industry, that is a very long list. Why @rustyrockets and why now?”
“@Erdayastronaut @michaelhodapp_ 1. Orbital launch tower that can stack 2. Enough Raptors for orbit booster 3. Improve ship & booster mass”
“Drone spaceport ship heads to its hold position in the Atlantic to prepare for a rocket landing http://t.co/kXYHGVKTfE”
“@nextspaceflight There is the internal goal if things go right, which needs to be aggressive. Obviously, some things will not go right internally & there will be external issues too. That said, I think we can stack an orbital ship on an orbital booster in July.”
“@SciGuySpace They need to make reusable rockets”
“@ErcXspace @smvllstvrs T/W will be ~1.5, so it will accelerate unusually fast. High T/W is important for reusable vehicles to make more efficient use of propellant, the primary cost. For expendable rockets, throwing away stages is the primary cost, so optimization is low T/W.”
“@DJSnM Booster landing was on target, ship landing was several km off due to flap damage, but both were soft landings”
“@RenataKonkoly @Erdayastronaut And booster used to be 70m, but this required an awkward half barrel width of steel, so now it’s 69m”
“RT @nvidia: From rockets to AI. Nine years after the original NVIDIA DGX-1 handoff, Jensen Huang delivered a brand-new DGX Spark to @ElonM…”
“@karpathy The ratio of machine to human compute skyrockets”
“@NASASpaceflight Still aiming for booster 4 & Ship 20 for first orbital test flight (this is pure coincidence!)”
“@austinbarnard45 Total coincidence! Also, booster height was originally 70m, but we eliminated a half barrel for manufacturing efficiency, so now it’s …”
“@RocketLab Congrats!”
“@yousuck2020 Thanks for helping fund a rocket & spaceship that could take humanity beyond Earth!”
