“The biggest technology challenge remaining for Starship is a fully & immediately reusable heat shield. Being able to land the ship, refill propellant & launch right away with no refurbishment or laborious inspection. That is the acid test.”
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“Starship https://t.co/hZomwmwknB”
“The next generation Starlink satellites, which are so big that only Starship can launch them, will allow for a 10X increase in bandwidth and, with the reduced altitude, faster latency”
“Starlink now available in Sri Lanka! 🇱🇰 [@Starlink] Starlink's high-speed, low-latency internet is now available in Sri Lanka! 🛰️🇱🇰❤️ → http://starlink.com/srilanka”
“I do drift off into thinking about Mars at times [@cb_doge] "But then I started thinking about Mars"”
“Starship will lengthen in the next few years. 10 years from now, there will probably be a much wider diameter Starship too.”
“33 Raptor engines with enough thrust to lift a skyscraper off its foundations [@SpaceX] Raptor engines powering liftoff and landing of Super Heavy )”
“Had the FCC not illegally revoked the SpaceX Starlink award, it would probably have saved lives in North Carolina. Lawfare costs lives.”
“Starship Super Heavy Booster to the launch pad https://t.co/Mui8whqGrb”
“Starlink antennas use an internally developed, electronically steered phased array tight beam that is more advanced than the best military technology”
“Starship preparing for launch 🚀 https://t.co/M1pR8rsmYt”
“Dragon coming in like a blazing meteor visible from San Francisco [@NShelly] Amazing @SpaceX @NASA”
“Starlink now constitutes roughly 2/3 of all active Earth satellites”
“250 [@SpaceX] Our 250th dedicated @Starlink launch”
“Starship Super Heavy Booster https://t.co/3065srPugD”
“34th flight of this booster https://t.co/sM4lQFTGA6”
“Preparing Starship 7 for flight”
“Super Heavy Booster https://t.co/blLi1cSzBI”
“With every launch, your @Starlink Internet gets a little better!”
“Starlink is particularly great for remote locations. It works whether you’re at the top of a mountain in the Arctic or in a crater in Madagascar!”
“How @Starlink works”
“Falcon Heavy https://t.co/g6Ix8RLgVS”
“That’s just plain cruel. The driver did nothing to deserve this. [@WholeMarsBlog] Democrats are now attacking working class rideshare drivers for driving cars that don’t pollute”
“🚀🚀 Stainless Steel Rocket 🚀🚀”
“Just leaving the engine bay of Starship https://t.co/JTnFfNaymh”
“Starlink factory in Texas https://t.co/szmp4YerRv”
“More Starlinks to orbit”
“SpaceX created the first fully reusable rocket stage and, much more importantly, made the reuse economically viable. Making life multiplanetary is fundamentally a cost per ton to Mars problem. It currently costs about a billion dollars per ton of useful payload to the surface…”
“Starlink [@Austen] 400 mbps on an airplane. Unbelievable.”
“First booster to reach 18 landings”
“Thousands of upgrades to Starship & launchpad/Mechazilla”
“Starlink now approved in 105 countries!”
“Nice shot [@Erdayastronaut] If you showed me this video 5 years ago, you couldn't convince me it was real, let alone a shot our team could capture. So proud of the Everyday Astronaut / @considercosmos team for continuing to up our game every launch to capture these historic moments @SpaceX @elonmusk )”
“Basic camping solar panels plus a little battery will power Starlink all day”
“New water deluge system to protect against the immense heat & force of Starship launch https://t.co/JMnBIH8UTM”
“Nice of him to say [@ElonClipsX] JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon: Elon is our Einstein. It's rational he checks our government efficiency. “You’ve got to look at Elon, at SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink – the guy is our Einstein. I'd like to be helpful to him and his companies as much as we can. I think it is completely… )”
“Starlink is not allowed to have an Internet provider license in South Africa for the sole reason that I am not Black. This is not ok. [@cb_doge] "There are 140 laws in South Africa that basically give strong preference to if you are a black South African and not otherwise. Starlink is not allowed to operate in South Africa, because I’m not black." 一 Elon Musk”
“Starship Flight 3 static fire test https://t.co/7HvFYvyQa3”
“A number of false news reports claim that SpaceX is selling Starlink terminals to Russia. This is categorically false. To the best of our knowledge, no Starlinks have been sold directly or indirectly to Russia.”
“Two Dragons 🐉 🐉 ready for flight”
“Starlink now approved in Zambia”
“Congrats @SpaceX Falcon team on 50 successful missions already this year! Highest flight rate of any rocket ever.”
“The Martians will decide how they are ruled. I recommend direct, rather than representative, democracy. Uncrewed Starships landing on Mars in ~2 years, perhaps with crewed versions passing near Mars, and crewed Starships heading there in ~4 years are all possible.”
“Starships were meant to fly!”
“Starship can reach Mars in 6 months every 26 months when the planets align [@Rainmaker1973] How long commercial airplane would take to reach each planet, if possible (speed ~ 900 km/h or 559 mph)”
“The @SpaceX Starship launch tomorrow morning will be live-streamed exclusively on 𝕏!”
“Air France is installing Starlink!”
“@WholeMarsBlog The question is not finding a CEO, the question is finding a CEO who can keep Twitter alive”
“Starship V3 with Raptor 3 [@INiallAnderson] Superheavy's evolution has been quite something to watch over the years! 😍 📸: @BocaChicaGal | @NASASpaceflight”
“Starship V3 first flight in about 4 weeks https://t.co/wvCkw5mjH0”
