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“@TJ_Cooney Wow, 2011 seems like eons ago! With fairing recovery, Falcon is ~80% reusable, but reflight takes several days & requires boats. Starship will be fully reusable with booster reflight possible every few hours & ship reflight every 8 hours. No boats needed.”
“Great work by SpaceX Dragon team & Airborne! To be clear, we’ve only done 1 multi-parachute test of Mk3 design, so 9 more left to reach 10 successful tests in a row.”
“Soon, SpaceX will launch @NASA astronauts to @Space_Station!”
“@starshipsara Extremely high”
“Maybe call Tesla solar roof tiles product Solarglass? Like Dragonglass, but solar!”
“@TeslaNY @SpaceX Gwynne rocks! Starlink will probably be a little bumpy at first, but then improve rapidly.”
“@MoWo91 @SpX_memes @SpaceX @Tesla @RenataKonkoly @sara_boutall @Kristennetten @Erdayastronaut @flcnhvy @JohnnaCrider1 🤣🤣”
“Sending this tweet through space via Starlink satellite 🛰”
“Anyone who’s interested in working on cutting edge manufacturing — designing & building the machine that makes the machine — please consider working at Tesla or SpaceX. We’re gonna take this to a whole new level!”
“@RationalEtienne @LaurenRow5 @EvaFoxU @JohnnaCrider1 @Kristennetten @vincent13031925 @28delayslater @Sofiaan @hamids @InsideEVs Tesla is first American car company to achieve sustained volume production in past ~100 years. Hardest, most painful thing I’ve ever been through, including getting Falcon to orbit.”
“@HarryStoltz1 @neiltyson @Space_Station Big challenge for Starship refueling on the moon is finding sources of carbon. Probably some pretty big deposits in craters from meteorites. Same goes for hydrogen & oxygen, also in (shadowed) craters.”
“@Erdayastronaut Depends on total system efficiency & how long the propellant plant can run to refill Starship, so 1 to 10MW as a rough guess”
“@SciGuySpace We had to reallocate some resources to speed this up & received great support from Airborne, our parachute supplier. I was at their Irvine factory with the SpaceX team on Sat and Sun. We’re focusing on the advanced Mk3 chute, which provides highest safety factor for astronauts.”
“@SciGuySpace For what it’s worth, the SpaceX schedule, which I’ve just reviewed in depth, shows Falcon & Dragon at the Cape & all testing done in ~10 weeks”
“@MemesOfMars First point release update expected to go out this weekend”
“@OranMaliphant @Erdayastronaut @AngelNDevil2 @MarkChica @FutureJurvetson @bluemoondance74 @SpaceX That’s about right, except no sensors. Tile itself is the sensor as it will partially ablate where too hot & have to be replaced.”
“@AngelNDevil2 @MarkChica @FutureJurvetson @bluemoondance74 @SpaceX It’s all the “secondary” structure that concerns me, not engines & primary airframe”
“@AngelNDevil2 @MarkChica @FutureJurvetson @bluemoondance74 @SpaceX Raptor cost is tracking to well under $1M for V1.0. Goal is <$250k for V2.0 is a 250 ton thrust-optimized engine, ie <$1000/ton”
“@RationalEtienne @LaurenRow5 @EvaFoxU @Kristennetten @SteveHamel16 @TheElonMasked @MemesOfMars @MichellBasler @mayemusk @kimbal Agreed & such a heartwarming photo ♥️”
“@HarryStoltz1 In solving for a good Mars climate, we will learn a great deal about how to do so on Earth. It is the inverse problem.”
“Inside Starship cargo bay. Header tanks mounted in tip of nosecone to offset engine weight at rear. https://t.co/EJSwqMCooA”
“Starship will allow us to inhabit other worlds”
“Starship halves being joined https://t.co/7pdxfh8e81”
“@flcnhvy @Erdayastronaut @Cor_SPACE No, we’ve been focusing on production (now on SN12). Only need 250 bar or even a bit less for Starship/Super Heavy. Anything above 250 is nice to have & we’ll get around to it, but not needed for flight.”
“Three Raptors on a Starship https://t.co/UrRiD62EVk”
“@SpacePadreIsle @SpaceX Wow, it’s been 5 years since we started at Boca!”
“@annerajb @Jennerator211 @Erdayastronaut With rare exceptions, composites would make Starship heavier. They don’t stand up well to high temperatures, but steel does great.”
“Lifting lower section of Starship https://t.co/bfW17i469a”
“@The_ShadowZone @DJSnM For sure more than one pass coming back to Earth. To Mars could maybe work single pass, but two passes probably wise.”
“@DJSnM Exactly. For reusable heatshield, minimize peak heating. For ablative/expendable, minimize total heat. Therefore reusable like Starship wants lift during high Mach reentry for lower peak, but higher total heat.”
“@Kristennetten SpaceX Foundry is used exclusively for advanced alloys/shapes for Raptor, incl our superalloy, SX500”
“Bottom half of Starship at night. Top half with forward fins & header tanks probably stacks on Wednesday. Three Raptors already installed. https://t.co/haq3m1V1Wm”
“Just leaving SpaceX Starship build site in Boca https://t.co/Bqt40mSdX4”
“@Erdayastronaut @CptnCrutch5373 @Kalzsom Super Heavy rocket will be much like Falcon 9, but the Ship is a strange combination of Dragon, F9 & a skydiver.”
“@SpaceXFan97 Nose tip has forward movable fins, cold gas attitude control thrusters, header tanks for landing, composite pressure vessels, several large batteries, etc. Placed up there to balance high mass of Raptors & rear fins at the bottom.”
“@SpaceXFan97 Yes. There’s a huge amount of hardware in the tip of the faring that being integrated on the ground, which is why we haven’t closed it out.”
“Adding the rear moving fins to Starship Mk1 in Boca Chica, Texas https://t.co/HWLihqihph”
“@Robotbeat @justpaulinelol @Teslarati Sure. Have to do it on Mars from beginning. Will ultimately do that on Earth too, so rocket flights will be zero net carbon long-term.”
“@Teslarati Great work by SpaceX parachute engineering! The Crew Dragon parachutes are way more difficult than they may seem. The Apollo program found them to be so hard that it became a notable morale problem!”
“@EvaFoxU @MemesOfMars @fermatslibrary Nice compression”
“@MemesOfMars @fermatslibrary And of course, this one, but that’s obv https://t.co/UKWYrBwjkZ”
“@MemesOfMars @fermatslibrary e^👁🥧 + 1 = 0”
“@flcnhvy @austinbarnard45 🚀♥️ Starship Team ♥️🚀”
“Getting ready for flight of orbit-class Starship design”
“@MemesOfMars @Teslarati The mechanical attachment mechanism. We need to make sure they won’t fall off due to vibration & acoustics.”
“@Teslarati The hex tiles are actually mechanically attached, which is important to allow for very high temp on back side of tile that would destroy any adhesive. Marshmellow-looking thing is a rope seal.”
“@Erdayastronaut @JHC2718 @MagnussonMani @vicvic21266 @flcnhvy @DJSnM @KevinKling12 @spaceXcentric Failure rate is actually both higher & lower than that, as the Falcon 9 design has changed almost completely several times. Currently flying version has no failures (may fate continue to be merciful), but older versions therefore have a higher failure rate.”
“@Erdayastronaut @IvanEscobosa @DJSnM @KevinKling12 @spaceXcentric Precisely”
“@Erdayastronaut @DJSnM @KevinKling12 @spaceXcentric Distance from fireball is 0.5*a*t^2, so if t is small, you haven’t moved far even if a is high. At ~6g thrust, you’ll only travel ~0.03m in 100 ms. Pressure wave (aka explosion) with liquid rockets is low, as ox & fuel are poorly mixed. If you can fly out of it, you’re prob ok.”
“@Erdayastronaut @vicvic21266 @flcnhvy @DJSnM @KevinKling12 @spaceXcentric 🤣🤣”
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