The tweet archive.

“@WholeMarsBlog Q2 for sure”

“@totalspace360 Looks familiar haha. Nonetheless, the right move. Congrats to Rocket Lab.”

“@WholeMarsBlog Tesla China team rocks!”

“@MemesOfMars @skorusARK Fremont shut down for two days (parts shortages) & restarted yesterday”

“Starship to the moon https://t.co/tVMJbBk3BU”

“@teslaownersSV Probably mid year, but Starlink is really meant for those who are least served. Bay usually has great Internet.”

“You might see much higher download speeds on Starlink at times. Testing system upgrades.”

“@eugenelee3 @SpaceXFan97 Most of Earth by end of year, all by next year, then it’s about densifying coverage. Important to note that cellular will always have the advantage in dense urban areas. Satellites are best for low to medium population density areas.”

“@SpaceXFan97 Speed will double to ~300Mb/s & latency will drop to ~20ms later this year”

“@WholeMarsBlog Most people have no idea, even though there are so many FSD progress videos posted. Munro understood right away. There will be a gap before the next release, but then it will be a step change better. Tesla is solving a major real-world AI problem.”

“@Teslarati SpaceX in south Texas & Tesla in central have been providing direct assistance where feasible (eg save cold turtles & help power the water treatment plant). Please let us know if we may be helpful in other ways.”

“@cz_binance @MansourShahrokh There will definitely be a MarsCoin!”

“@BrennanChant @SpaceX Yeah. Active fairing half recovered though.”

“@rockstardenied @SpaceX SpaceX Boca team is helping save the turtles”

“@BLKMDL3 @RationalEtienne @Adamklotz_ Once we can predict cash flow reasonably well, Starlink will IPO”

“@RationalEtienne @Adamklotz_ Starlink is a staggeringly difficult technical & economic endeavor. However, if we don’t fail, the cost to end users will improve every year.”

“@RationalEtienne @Adamklotz_ SpaceX needs to pass through a deep chasm of negative cash flow over the next year or so to make Starlink financially viable. Every new satellite constellation in history has gone bankrupt. We hope to be the first that does not.”

“@tobyliiiiiiiiii This is intended for Earth, but there may be some ideas that apply to Mars too”

“@Erdayastronaut @michaelhodapp_ 1. Orbital launch tower that can stack 2. Enough Raptors for orbit booster 3. Improve ship & booster mass”

“@astro_g_dogg @SpaceX Yup”

“Of Earth and Mars”

“Time to tell the story of Tesla & SpaceX”

“@Adamklotz_ @Erdayastronaut @josh_bickett @ajtourville @SpaceX Will still use hot gas maneuvering (RCS) thrusters, as ~5X more efficient than nitrogen (300 sec vs 60 sec Isp)”

“@Erdayastronaut @josh_bickett @ajtourville @SpaceX Higher Isp too”

“@Erdayastronaut @josh_bickett @ajtourville @SpaceX Intuitively, it would seem so, but turbopump-fed Raptors have much higher thrust & propellant mass fraction than pressure-fed gas thrusters & they’re already there”

“@josh_bickett @ajtourville @Erdayastronaut @SpaceX Yeah. By default, engine with least lever arm would shut down if all 3 are good.”

“@ajtourville @Erdayastronaut @SpaceX Yes, but engines have a min throttle point where there is flameout risk, so landing on 3 engines means high thrust/weight (further away from hover point), which is also risky”

“@Adamklotz_ @Erdayastronaut @SpaceX Yes”

“@Erdayastronaut @SpaceX It was foolish of us not to start 3 engines & immediately shut down 1, as 2 are needed to land”

“@Erdayastronaut @TJ_Cooney @lrocket @SpaceX @FelixSchlang @MarcusHouseGame Tom has some great stories about experimenting with premixed O2/CH4 before SpaceX. That is not recommended haha.”

“@Erdayastronaut @TJ_Cooney @lrocket @SpaceX @FelixSchlang @MarcusHouseGame He became a big fan of methane, but was not pushing it initially. That came from me reading about Soviet methane engine tests that got over 380 Isp. At that Isp, a subcooled methane stage gets slightly better delta-V than a hydrogen stage.”

“@TJ_Cooney @lrocket @SpaceX @FelixSchlang @MarcusHouseGame That sounds correct. Tom certainly deserves a lot of credit for his excellent work on those engines! Dean Ono too for Kestrel & Draco.”

“@TJ_Cooney @lrocket @SpaceX @FelixSchlang @MarcusHouseGame Tom is great & was instrumental in developing early versions of Merlin & Kestrel, but not later versions of Merlin or Starship/Raptor”

“@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.”

“@YounesH1989 I never used this guy. He gave a talk at SpaceX once.”

“@Carnage4Life I sure hope that’s not true at Tesla or SpaceX!”

“Starship SN9 & SN10 https://t.co/urtPJn7amo”

“@JohnnaCrider1 @Iupsychdoctor @AOC @RobinhoodApp Shopify is great too. SpaceX used them.”

“@NASASpaceflight Unlike its aircraft division, which is fine, the FAA space division has a fundamentally broken regulatory structure. Their rules are meant for a handful of expendable launches per year from a few government facilities. Under those rules, humanity will never get to Mars.”

“@TrevorMahlmann @SpaceX Major esthetics improvements coming”

“@DMC_Ryan New Roadster is part rocket”

“@24_7TeslaNews @WholeMarsBlog Yeah, probably in a few months”

“@WholeMarsBlog After you drive without using a PRND stalk/stick for a few days, it gets very annoying to go back & use a shifter!”

“@WholeMarsBlog No more stalks. Car guesses drive direction based on what obstacles it sees, context & nav map. You can override on touchscreen.”

“@thesheetztweetz It does not serve the public to hamstring Starlink today for an Amazon satellite system that is at best several years away from operation”

“@flcnhvy @WholeMarsBlog Yes, although it will be crazy not to turn on FSD”

“@WholeMarsBlog Tesla is steadily moving all NNs to 8 camera surround video. This will enable superhuman self-driving.”

“@PPathole @SpaceX Lasers”

“@arstechnica @SciGuySpace Given so many other companies are depending on this mission, it is getting even more scrutiny than a Starlink flight”

“@Erdayastronaut It’s a good path for fully renewable rocket energy, so solves part of problem, but longer chain hydrocarbons than CH4 are needed to be solid at room temp”