“@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.”
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“@existentialcoms That article was pushed as propaganda to counter IMF study showing fossil fuel subsidies to be $5 trillion/year. Even if $4.9B was true, combined market cap of Tesla & SpaceX is $80B. Where did the other $75B come from? Ass 🎩 …”
“Launching in ~4 mins https://t.co/4vMvdEQAx7 https://x.com/spacex/status/995031117924257792”
“@MarinPilates @WeDragonSlayers This chart shows how crazy low payout is to labels & the artists only a small fraction of these numbers https://t.co/2us0rzTMqk”
“@MarinPilates @WeDragonSlayers Prob iTunes, but whatever works 4u is fine. Most people don’t buy music & artist earnings from streaming are tiny. Mostly about touring. https://t.co/7eITqomrqc https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/art-angels/1051022913”
“@WeDragonSlayers Flesh without Blood & Kill V Maim on Art Angels album https://t.co/MycGWvbYGk https://open.spotify.com/album/5hB4jVN4ZHpubyiMmW81K1?si=w_40XQKaQeOx5HfdWR4-0Q”
“@arstechnica SpaceX Crew Dragon ships to the Cape in about 3 months”
“Falcon 9 fairing opens its parafoil after reentering the atmosphere https://t.co/WWz7MhmKaM https://www.instagram.com/p/BiQ5qXnA_OM/?utm_source=twitter”
“@WorldAndScience Almost ready to test the new Boring Company / SpaceX hyperpod prototype. Exciting video guaranteed.”
“Oh btw I’m building a cyborg dragon”
“@arstechnica @SciGuySpace Russia has great rocket technology & talent. Much respect. Would encourage focus on reusability. Single-use rockets cannot be competitive any more than single-use aircraft.”
“@QuinnKupec @SpaceX @UofMaryland Yeah, exactly! Would be great to hear your thoughts. We’re going to try a few approaches. Can def be done, just about minimizing mass.”
“SpaceX will try to bring rocket upper stage back from orbital velocity using a giant party balloon”
“SpaceX main body tool for the BFR interplanetary spaceship https://t.co/WbTITI6WSu https://www.instagram.com/p/BhVk3y3A0yB/”
“Upgraded SpaceX/Tesla Hyperloop pod speed test soon. Will try to reach half speed of sound (and brake) within ~1.2km.”
“Love seeing the scars of the rocket https://t.co/y5FQrLcV9B”
“@jiveDurkey @SpaceX @facebook Literally never seen it even once”
“Petra and Mars https://t.co/AFgsZVlImZ https://www.instagram.com/p/BglRR6EgB8j/”
“@Lori_Garver @JeffBezos Lori, this is ridiculous. Creating a rocket company has to be one of the dumbest and hardest ways to “make money”. If it was about money, I’d just do another Internet company.”
“Why Falcon Heavy & Starman? Life cannot just be about solving one sad problem after another. There need to be things that inspire you, that make you glad to wake up in the morning and be part of humanity. That is why we did it. We did for you. https://t.co/5STO7q4wro https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=A0FZIwabctw”
“Will be at SXSW Sat/Sun with Jonah & Lisa, who created Westworld. Jonah made an incredible short reel of Falcon Heavy & Starman. Releases tmrw aft.”
“@SpaceX Very proud of the SpaceX team! Can’t believe it’s been fifty Falcon 9 launches already. Just ten years ago, we couldn’t even reach orbit with little Falcon 1.”
“Falcon 9 flight 50 launches tonight, carrying Hispasat for Spain. At 6 metric tons and almost the size of a city bus, it will be the largest geostationary satellite we’ve ever flown.”
“First two Starlink demo satellites, called Tintin A & B, deployed and communicating to Earth stations https://t.co/TfI53wHEtz”
“@minhazLive This was an older version booster, so no recovery attempted”
“Going to try to catch the giant fairing (nosecone) of Falcon 9 as it falls back from space at… https://t.co/CVS2PoaJah https://www.instagram.com/p/BfgHKDNAplx/”
“@lorengrush @T28058389 @VP @blueorigin @ulalaunch @SpaceX @Erdayastronaut @SciGuySpace Strange though. Delta IV Heavy has half the payload of Falcon Heavy and the BO rocket doesn’t exist yet.”
“@angilly I don’t get the little ship thing. You can’t show up at Mars in something the size of a rowboat. What if there are Martians? It would be so embarrassing.”
“@doug_ellison @dsfpspacefl1ght Found the source of the problem. The NASA database has the Falcon Block 1 performance. Version currently in production and set to fly in a few months is Block 5. SpaceX GNC team is submitting updated numbers.”
“@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.”
“@DavideDF_ @doug_ellison @dsfpspacefl1ght Side boosters landing on droneships & center expended is only ~10% performance penalty vs fully expended. Cost is only slightly higher than an expended F9, so around $95M.”
“@AngryPackOMeese @dlxinorbit @doug_ellison @dsfpspacefl1ght Maybe that plan works out, but I will seriously eat my hat with a side of mustard if that rocket flies a national security spacecraft before 2023”
“@doug_ellison @dsfpspacefl1ght Both exhaust velocity (Isp) and mass ratio drive the rocket equation. Also thrust/mass matters a lot for Oberth effect. Delta upper stage Isp is good, but mass ratio and thrust are not.”
“@doug_ellison @dsfpspacefl1ght The performance numbers in this database are not accurate. In process of being fixed. Even if they were, a fully expendable Falcon Heavy, which far exceeds the performance of a Delta IV Heavy, is $150M, compared to over $400M for Delta IV Heavy.”
“Love and Rockets https://t.co/VnnFXb1Iig https://www.instagram.com/p/BfEjUC_gfeo/”
“Falcon Heavy engine plumes look like giant laser beams in this photo by rocketphotography https://t.co/d1RKdPTNj5 https://www.instagram.com/p/BfEHEiKgBiK/”
“Last pic of Starman in Roadster on its journey to Mars orbit and then the Asteroid Belt https://t.co/IWSjRyTr8V https://www.instagram.com/p/Be6VZEzgAEk/”
“Third burn successful. Exceeded Mars orbit and kept going to the Asteroid Belt. https://t.co/bKhRN73WHF”
“@realDonaldTrump @SpaceX @NASA Thank you on behalf of SpaceX. An exciting future lies ahead!”
“@SamHarrisOrg @SpaceX We’re doing ok for a bunch of monkeys. Humanity rocks!”
“@VP @SpaceX Thank you on behalf of SpaceX”
“On the rocket LZ https://t.co/UyiNd2fmi5 https://www.instagram.com/p/Be36GWVAcR5/”
“View from SpaceX Launch Control. Apparently, there is a car in orbit around Earth. https://t.co/QljN2VnL1O”
“Upper stage restart nominal, apogee raised to 7000 km. Will spend 5 hours getting zapped in Van Allen belts & then attempt final burn for Mars.”
“Rocket LZ 1 and 2 https://t.co/gckyKKIK4I https://www.instagram.com/p/Be3sOnEA0DK/”
“Camera views from inside the payload fairing #FalconHeavy https://t.co/vQaz2yJ5yY https://www.instagram.com/p/Be3m_LNgOYY/”
“Launch auto-sequence initiated (aka the holy mouse-click) for 3:45 liftoff #FalconHeavy”
“Upper atmosphere winds currently 20% above max allowable load. Holding for an hour to allow winds to diminish. #FalconHeavy”
“Flight profile #FalconHeavy #SpaceX https://t.co/LlfWXqUaLP”
“Live webcast of the launch at https://t.co/bDd3GxQXMC http://SpaceX.com”
