“Explaining Starship [@SpaceX] SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Watch @ElonMusk and @Boca_Bill_R discuss SpaceX’s mission”
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“Good trend [@stats_feed] @elonmusk 🚀 SpaceX launches by year: 2006: 1 2007: 1 2008: 2 2009: 1 2010: 2 2011: 0 2012: 2 2013: 3 2014: 6 2015: 7 2016: 9 2017: 18 2018: 21 2019: 13 2020: 27 2021: 33 2022: 61 2023: 98 2024: 133 2025: 9 as of January 21)”
“Tomorrow will be the 7th flight of this rocket, landing on droneship Of Course I Still Love You”
“We are honing in on the V3 Starship design. @SpaceX is tracking to a Starship launch rate of once a week in ~12 months. That will yield ~100 tons to @Starlink orbit with full reusability. Profound breakthrough. [@MarcusHouse] I'm not sure people really understand the ridiculous pace with SpaceX breaking new records almost every week. Can you imagine what it is going to be like with 2 (or soon even 3) Starship launch towers active!? 🚀 It's going to be nuts! Let's go! 🤯 https://youtu.be/ygwKEKu-6wg”
“Congrats SpaceX team on 500 orbital rocket launch & landings! [@SpaceX] Falcon 9 touchdown on the Just Read the Instructions droneship, completing the 500th launch and landing of an orbital class rocket”
“Starship is the largest flying object ever made and it will continue to grow [@teslaownersSV] Rockets of the world,,, The scale of the Starship is insane. 🤯🤯”
“So good to see the improved forward flaps [@SpaceX] Starship moved to the pad at Starbase ahead of its eighth flight test )”
“Orders of Magnitude [@ICannot_Enough] No orbital launch provider but SpaceX has ever put even 1,000 satellites in orbit; SpaceX has launched >11,000. What has @elonmusk said about this unprecedented accomplishment? “It’s a good start.” 🚀”
“SpaceX is now providing precise positional awareness of objects in Earth orbit to all satellite operators for free. This will greatly reduce the probability of collisions that create orbital debris (space junk) hazards. [@Starlink] SpaceX has developed a novel Space Situational Awareness (SSA) system, called Stargaze → To maximize safety for all satellites in space, @SpaceX will be making Stargaze conjunction data available to all operators, free of charge. By providing this… http://starlink.com/stargaze”
““They are smart … for humans” – future AI [@Teslaconomics] Even when AI surpasses the combined intelligence of all humanity, I bet it will still look back at Starship amazed that humans built it”
“Next-gen GPS from @Starlink! Very hard to jam. https://t.co/pzWSUAfFiU https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FcArnepkhv0 [@MarioNawfal] STARLINK EYES GPS 2.0—SPACEX WANTS TO RUN THE MAP SpaceX just fired its shot—it’s gunning to replace GPS! In a pitch to the FCC, SpaceX revealed its satellite swarm is ready to deliver global PNT (Positioning, Navigation, Timing)—faster, safer, and independent of the”
“Starship 4 will be another 10% to 20% longer [@teslaownersSV] The scale of the Starship is insane. 🤯🤯”
“Formal announcement of the TERAFAB project, which will be done jointly by @SpaceX and @Tesla, tonight around 8pm CT. Livestream on 𝕏. The goal is to produce over a TERAWATT of compute per year (logic, memory & packaging) with ~80% for space and ~20% for the ground.”
“It’s nuts that all other rockets just smash back to Earth! “The Falcon has landed” almost 500 times. [@teslaownersSV] Elon Musk on Rocket Reusability: “Imagine a pallet of cash falling from space, about to burn up. Would you try to save it? Probably yes.” “So we want to get it back that way, we don’t have to make another one.””
“@sikorskiradek Be quiet, small man. You pay a tiny fraction of the cost. And there is no substitute for Starlink.”
“Flight profile #FalconHeavy #SpaceX https://t.co/LlfWXqUaLP”
“@MarioNawfal If I win, he resigns as dictator of Venezuela. If he wins, I give him a free ride to Mars.”
“SpaceXAI + Tesla TERAFAB Project Goal is a trillion watts of compute/year Most must necessarily go to space, as US electricity is only 0.5TW [@SpaceX] Announcing TERAFAB: the next step towards becoming a galactic civilization https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1yKAPMzlvgWxb”
“First launch of Starlink Direct-to-Phone satellites https://t.co/Bamfpvlioz https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OwxWYmNbeeGQ”
“Starship V3 booster & ship will be ready for their first test flight in a few weeks [@XFreeze] Both Starship and the Super Heavy Booster have successfully completed the static fire tests and are ready to take to the skies Every test brings us one step closer to making humanity multi-planetary "Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the real world" —”
“Yes [@PeterDiamandis] Occupy Mars isn’t a slogan. It’s the future of humanity as a multi-planetary species. We’ll get there soon enough.”
“K2 or you’re not even trying! [@SpaceX] SpaceX has acquired xAI, forming one of the most ambitious, vertically integrated innovation engines on (and off) Earth → http://spacex.com/updates#xai-joins-spacex”
“Congrats Starlink & Falcon teams on building and launching 10k satellites! SpaceX now has several times more satellites in orbit than all others combined. [@Starlink] SpaceX has now launched more than 10,000 Starlink satellites to date, enabling reliable high-speed internet for millions of people all around the world 🛰️🌎❤️”
“12 story rocket turns off its engines & does a controlled fall”
“The future is accelerating [@tetsuoai] "a first step towards becoming a Kardashev II-level civilization." - Elon Musk In the last three weeks: SpaceX acquired xAI, merging the world's largest rocket company with one of the fastest-moving AI labs on the planet. SpaceX valued at $1 trillion. The stated goal of the”
“Rocket fairing falling from space (higher res) https://t.co/sa1j10qAWi”
“Fuel header tank pressure was low during landing burn, causing touchdown velocity to be high & RUD, but we got all the data we needed! Congrats SpaceX team hell yeah!!”
“True, many pets will be saved by autonomy [@WholeMarsBlog] 5.4 million cats are hit by cars every year in the U.S., and 97 % of those cats die from their injuries. Autonomy will dramatically reduce that number.”
“@vkhosla @Tesla @SpaceX @X Vinod, you’re not just such a pompous asshole that you tried to stop the public from using a public beach near your house, you’ve also gone full retard. My partner, Shivon, is half Indian and my eldest son with her is named in honor of the great Indian physicist Chandrasekhar.”
“@WholeMarsBlog Tbh, it’s good motivation to work out, eat healthier & maybe take my shirt off outside more than once a year haha”
“Cool [@SawyerMerritt] United Airlines Starlink review: "Throughout the 90-minute flight, I regularly clocked download speeds of over 100 Mbps, with speeds peaking at 222 Mbps. I was able to download the YouTube app (308.4 MB) in seconds, watch YouTube videos, stream shows, listen to Spotify and even”
“SpaceX will try to bring rocket upper stage back from orbital velocity using a giant party balloon”
“SpaceX [@ApoStructura] So far in 2026 SpaceX has been outlaunching the rest of the world combined”
“Only way to make life multiplanetary [@TheRabbitHole84] SpaceX has dramatically lowered the cost of space flight.”
“March of the 10 thousand [@BassonBrain] Friday the 13th and 10,000 Starlink sats in orbit🔥 @SpaceX is targeting, weather permitting, double-header Falcon 9 launches from the East and West Coast to deploy 54 @Starlink satellites. ... one of these satellites will represent the first time SpaceX surpass 10,000 Starlink”
“@WholeMarsBlog I have no desire to become involved in wars, but it is safe to say that all bets are off if the nukes start flying”
“Try out self-driving in a Tesla. It will greatly improve your quality of life and may save your life. [@Scobleizer] I was on @wholemars space this afternoon while my Model 3 drove me for a couple of hours to drop off my taxes. And found myself quite emotional listening to others' stories about theirs. I'll never sell it. It is the best thing I've ever spent money on beyond marriage and”
“Latency good enough to play FPS games on an airplane! [@xdNiBoR] Playing competitive games like Valorant and CS:GO on a plane using Starlink. A different user says: "The speeds are actually better than I have at home"”
“Was up all night with SpaceX team working on Starship tank dome production (most difficult part of primary structure). Dawn arrives … https://t.co/SzyDSYUYOu”
“@Kasparov63 We gave Starlinks to Ukraine & lost $80M+ in doing so, while putting SpaceX & myself at serious risk of Russian cyberattack. What have you done besides tweet?”
“Cute [@SpaceInvestor_D] Kardashev II loading… SpaceX filed for 1M orbital data center satellites Starcloud (NVIDIA-backed) filed for 88K sats Blue Origin just filed for 51K sats. These aren’t sci-fi sketches, they’re FCC filings. First nodes of a solar-harnessing swarm are deploying soon.”
“4 Astronauts fly to @Space_Station on Sat night from Cape. First operational flight of Crew Dragon. https://t.co/uZCGiKciKb”
“Another batch of Starlinks in orbit. These will mostly support high latitude connectivity.”
“100GW/year of solar-powered AI satellites requires 100GW/year of AI computers … [@niccruzpatane] Elon is not messing around. SpaceX has just filed an application with the FCC seeking authority to launch and operate a massive new satellite constellation dedicated to orbital data centers. ITS HAPPENING. Tesla Terafab is next.”
“SpaceX might exceed 90% of all Earth payload to orbit later this year. Once Starship is launching at high rate, probably >99%. Has to be or we can’t build a city on Mars or base on moon. We file almost no patents, so nothing stopping competition from copying us.”
“@owillis About half my money is intended to help problems on Earth & half to help establish a self-sustaining city on Mars to ensure continuation of life (of all species) in case Earth gets hit by a meteor like the dinosaurs or WW3 happens & we destroy ourselves”
“Just before the Starship flight next week, I will give a company talk explaining the Mars game plan in Starbase, Texas, that will also be live-streamed on 𝕏 [@SpaceX] Starship completed a long duration six-engine static fire and is undergoing final preparations for the ninth flight test”
“Falcon 9 fairing cam captures 2nd stage plume, booster entry burn & Earth in twilight https://t.co/ga9MpZKvK2”
“Congratulations on 600 missions! Falcon will probably exceed 1000 missions before retiring. [@SpaceX] Falcon completes its 600th overall mission! Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team!”
“That’s an old pic. Starship will get longer. [@teslaownersSV] The scale of the Starship is insane and 🤯🤯🤯”
