15 years of Elon, fully searchable. The production archive uses Supabase as the source of truth, with 94,952 indexed tweets available in development as a full-archive fallback and a curated annotation layer for context, theory, and how major claims aged.
“@thesheetztweetz @SciGuySpace @Some1gee Last I checked, over a million dollars less. Moreover, F9 is launching far more often & is only rocket fully NASA-approved for launching astronauts, so that gap is increasing.”
“@tobyliiiiiiiiii @Erdayastronaut @queue_max @NASASpaceflight Haha, good catch. Booster will have fixed legs that add ~2m in height.”
“RT @XFreeze: The reason why Elon Musk started working on reusable rockets "I started reading quite a bit about rockets to try and understa…”
“RT @XFreeze: Walter Isaacson explains exactly how Elon Musk uses first principles thinking to build rockets: When young Elon wanted to sen…”
“@peterrhague @blueorigin Only reusable rockets will be competitive in the future”
“@Erdayastronaut @BnOrdhaug @sivanithu @tobyliiiiiiiiii @cabral_psyd @imatsb @thesheetztweetz @SciGuySpace @Some1gee @RocketLab @Peter_J_Beck Sure”
“Not that this really matters. All current rocket tech, including ours, sucks. Only when it becomes fully reusable, will it not suck.”
“@elon_docs There is a reason it hasn’t been solved, despite countries/companies pouring about a trillion dollars cumulatively into rocket development over 80 years”
“Infrared video of Falcon rocket reentry captured by @NASA tracking cameras http://t.co/GQLCFLlrUC http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_UFjK_CFKgA&feature=youtu.be”
“@rustyrockets Yes”
“RT @booster_10: I don't think people who got into spaceflight after this happened will ever understand just how big of a deal it was. Seein…”
“@astupple Rockets don’t get to orbit unless you correct a *lot* of mistakes”
“RT @amXFreeze: Grok Code usage has skyrocketed to 2T tokens in less than a month, while the runner-up barely hits 350B Grok Code is still…”
“@oza_shiv @lrocket 🔥”
“Between this flight & Grasshopper tests, I think we now have all the pieces of the puzzle to bring the rocket back home.”
“@lrocket Piece of cake anyone can do it lol”
“Flight computers continued transmitting for 8 seconds after reaching the water. Stopped when booster went horizontal.”
“@elonmusk Max performance numbers are for expendable launches. Subtract 30% to 40% for reusable booster payload.”
“RT @cb_doge: 𝕏 - #1 News App Free 𝕏 - #1 News App Grossing Grok - #2 Productivity App Grok - #6 Overall Downloads are skyrocketing for G…”
“This is 1st ever orbital rocket launch w landing legs. Will attempt leg deploy & soft landing out to sea.”
“@Erdayastronaut @DJSnM @torybruno @lrocket Common shaft only works if optimal rpm is similar for fuel & oxidizer”
“@rocketisfine @racchava @gwestr We tried. Nintendo won’t license it to us.”
“@amuse For a planet colonizer class rocket, it certainly does”
“@Erdayastronaut @flcnhvy @austinbarnard45 You can deep throttle on single shaft system by choking flow of fuel or oxygen between pump & combustion chamber. Problem is more with the tiny rocket engine that powers the pump, called a gas generator. That has to throttle *way* deeper than the main chamber.”
“@lrocket Congrats!”
“@Teknium1 Pretty good, apart from the rocket stuff”
“@oza_shiv @lrocket Throw in some hydrogen & lithium for a real party”
“RT @XFreeze: The reason why Elon Musk started working on reusable rockets "I started reading quite a bit about rockets to try and understa…”
“@Erdayastronaut @LytovchenkoSerg @John_Gardi Booster center of mass is much lower & more consistent (no payload mass to consider), so still biases towards engine first entry”
“@Erdayastronaut @PPathole @austinbarnard45 @LabPadre Rockets & spacecraft have to operate in vacuum, so maintaining pressure is fundamental. However, this can be made very safe over time imo.”
“SuperDraco rocket engine fired at full thrust w a printed Inconel chamber. Used for Dragon escape & landing http://t.co/HjWEayLlBN”
“@marialauraadr @_TomCross_ Waiting for Falcon Heavy to launch means high cortisol levels. This is our toughest rocket launch ever.”
“@nextspaceflight @Erdayastronaut @sivanithu @tobyliiiiiiiiii @cabral_psyd @imatsb @thesheetztweetz @SciGuySpace @Some1gee @RocketLab @Peter_J_Beck SN4 won’t get flaps, so can only do flights with engine on. Just did a reset this week on flap, actuator & static aero design. Either SN5 or SN6 will get flaps.”
“@Erdayastronaut @goathobbit Thin tiles on windward side of ship & nothing on leeward or anywhere on booster looks like lightest option”
“RT @BoosterTribe: Awesome sunrise reflection at Starfactory https://t.co/XCwTkXdBRC”
“@Erdayastronaut @NASASpaceflight @_Synders @John_Gardi @martinengwicht @JeromeJaccard @Robotbeat @alan1bernard You def don’t want electric pumps on a rocket engine! Raptor turbopumps alone need 100,000 horsepower per engine. That’s not a typo.”
“@SciGuySpace @DrPhiltill @lrocket True”
“@FredericLambert In early 90s, I wrote a multitasker for PCs that spoofed the CPU & CD-ROM to act in parallel, so could read video continuously while player sprite moved smoothly. Required C++, assembly & direct flipping of CPU registers. That company’s name was Rocket Science. Fate loves irony.”
“@lrocket Wow, you have a grandson! That’s cool.”
“@SciGuySpace @yokem55 @waynehale Without a fully & rapidly reusable orbital rocket, humanity will never be a multiplanet species”
“@DJSnM @doug_ellison @dsfpspacefl1ght Under consideration. We’ve already stretched the upper stage once. Easiest part of the rocket to change. Fairing 2, flying soon, also has a slightly larger diameter. Could make fairing much longer if need be & will if BFR takes longer than expected.”
“@theRedding @Erdayastronaut Rockets are not yet safe enough to fly over land”
“@Erdayastronaut @thesheetztweetz @SciGuySpace @Some1gee Sorry, meant to say only US rocket. Atlas V is close, but not yet 100%.”
“We called manual abort. Better to be paranoid and wrong. Bringing rocket down to borescope engines ...”
“@ignaciobelieres @oza_shiv @lrocket “Ignition!””
“Base is 300 ft by 100 ft, with wings that extend width to 170 ft. Will allow refuel & rocket flyback in future.”
“@peterrhague Frankly, given the insane amount of power flowing through them, it’s amazing that rocket engines don’t just blow up every time!!”
“Last known state for rocket boost stage is 360 m/s, Mach 1.1, 8.5 km altitude and roll rate close to zero (v important!)”
“@rdstrick777 @Erdayastronaut @StevenHardison @lrocket No, just preparing for untethered hover tests”
“@lrocket Yeah”
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