The tweet archive.

“@StarshipFairing @MarcusHouseGame Not bad! We will definitely need more engines if we make the cargo bay all propellant, but it’s probably smarter than a whole new shorter external hull.”

“@flcnhvy If we build as many Starships as Falcons, so ~100 vehicles & each does 100 tons to orbit, that’s a capacity of 10 million tons of payload to orbit per year”

“@shivon Starship Simulator!”

“RT @johnkrausphotos: Unreal. An instant new favorite Starship onboard camera photo. https://t.co/nXUHmCLsri”

“@flcnhvy Payload to orbit per year of Starship fleet is most mind-blowing metric, as it’s designed to fly 3X per day, which is ~1000X per year”

“@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.”

“RT @teslaownersSV: Space travel as common as ocean flights. Starship is making it possible. 🚀 https://t.co/nBSzizL66F”

“@Erdayastronaut @goathobbit Testing a possible Starship windward side ceramic tile. Maximizing emissivity is best for conductive/particle heating. Nice thing about steel is that tiles can be very thin, unlike carbon fiber or aluminum airframe.”

“RT @InfographicTony: Version 1.0: Starship Flight Test- X post-launch infographic (Unofficial). https://t.co/v1KgN7uJ0i”

“@RQuiddich Every tank under pressure is a balloon tank — it’s just question of degree. Starship tanks are not balloon tanks like Atlas in sense that they don’t collapse when depressurized on the ground.”

“@KerbalNut @SciGuySpace Starship will carry >99% of mass to orbit of Earth”

“RT @DimaZeniuk: Starship will likely grow by another 20m over time, reaching up to 140m 🤯 https://t.co/EYfJKTylXV”

“@urnamma After Starship returns from orbit”

“@grafikhure_de @StevenHardison Starship will look like liquid silver”

“@tossha_spb @atlasobscura Will do Starship presentation a few weeks after Hopper hovers, so prob late July. If that timing works, free LJ chips for all present!”

“@S3XYstarship @cb_doge If current trends continue, robots will far outnumber humans”

“@C3LT_Games The Cape is one of the two Starship build sites. More on this later.”

“@Erdayastronaut @JeromeJaccard @Robotbeat @alan1bernard While there are some material similarities, Starship is very different from the Atlas design”

“@Falcon9Block5 @Alejandro_DebH @annerajb Won’t change. Starship launch structure will be attached to the other side from tower.”

“@Alejandro_DebH @annerajb Starship launch structure is being built off-site in steel subsections”

“RT @teslaownersSV: The scale of the Starship is insane and 🤯🤯🤯 https://t.co/KldF2iZKaS”

“RT @cb_doge: Elon Musk on Starship: "If there are historians in the future, they will look back at Starship and say it was one of the most…”

“@Erdayastronaut Depends on total system efficiency & how long the propellant plant can run to refill Starship, so 1 to 10MW as a rough guess”

“@space_terp @NASASpaceflight Both sites will make many Starships. This is a competition to see which location is most effective. Answer might be both.”

“RT @cb_doge: A Kardashev Type II civilization requires xAI and Grok at planetary scale. Starship enables solar powered AI satellites in or…”

“@Matthew_Nolan1 @austinbarnard45 Starship will do orbital launches from Boca Chica (near Brownsville) & Cape”

“@HarryStoltz1 @ShorealoneFilms Details coming at Starship update”

“@realRickyReeves @Erdayastronaut @NASA Crew Dragon is capable of propulsive landing, but would require extensive testing to prove safety. Better to focus on Starship.”

“@starshipsara Extremely high”

“@bevvscott Starship Tooters”

“@lister6520 @justpaulinelol @MattLBates @Erdayastronaut You’re touching on a good critique of Falcon 9. Our 1st stage to 2nd stage propellant ratio is too high. We’re fixing that with Starship.”

“@justpaulinelol @annerajb @highlyaaronic Probably have slots for up to 37 engines, but can decontent as needed. Starship update after Hopper hover.”

“@enn_nafnlaus @TheJewbyrd7777 @DrakeFerroNyalk @13ericralph31 Spiral-winding is great for uniform thickness. We used that for the Hyperloop vacuum tunnel. However, Starship skin thickness will vary considerably according to loads.”

“@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.”

“@Kristennetten @SmileSimplify @Erdayastronaut We’re focusing on Boca right now for Starship & Cape is focused on Falcon/Dragon”

“@annerajb @Jennerator211 @Erdayastronaut With rare exceptions, composites would make Starship heavier. They don’t stand up well to high temperatures, but steel does great.”

“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…”

“@TheMarsSociety SpaceX is developing rockets needed to make life multiplanetary — full & rapid reusability at large scale. Even if SpaceX fails in that goal, the rockets will still be most advanced on Earth. Starlink‘s purpose is to provide Internet to the least served & to pay for Mars.”

“Since your handle is “Whole Mars”, perhaps this lengthy reply is apropos: Getting the cost per ton to the surface of Mars low enough that humanity has the resources to make life multiplanetary requires a roughly 1000X improvement in rocket & spacecraft technology. Recent US…”

“Making life multiplanetary [@SpaceX] The Road to Making Life Multiplanetary: an update from @elonmusk on SpaceX's plan to reach Mars”

“10 Earth-Mars transfer windows are needed to make Mars self-sustaining, ideally at least 20. 1/4 to 1/2 century. [@iam_smx] "Unless civilization collapses, SpaceX will make life multiplanetary." -Elon Musk )”

“@SpaceX For the first time ever, there is a rocket capable of establishing permanent bases on the moon and Mars”

“That is the goal [@XFreeze] Elon Musk: "The goal of SpaceX is to make life multiplanetary in order to extend the probable lifespan of consciousness That's been the goal from the beginning; you can see videos of me talking about this 20 years ago We need to transport a lot of people and equipment to Mars.… https://x.com/i/web/status/2010042446122758540”

“Protect the light of consciousness [@XFreeze] ELON MUSK EXPLAINS THE REAL PURPOSE OF SPACEX "SpaceX is about advancing rocket technology to the point where we can extend life and consciousness beyond Earth to the moon, to Mars, eventually to other star systems And I think we should always view consciousness, life as we… https://x.com/i/web/status/2014375895415586964”

“@blueskykites @Grimezsz @WholeMarsBlog @SpaceXMR @musky_meme @CovelloMassimo @SpaceX @Kristennetten @EliBurton_ @Erdayastronaut @28delayslater @TeslaAndDoge @bevedoni @TeslaHype @OwenSparks_ @RationalEtienne It’s true – I do think a lot about rocket engine chamber pressure ahaha”

“RT @SpaceX: The Road to Making Life Multiplanetary: an update from @elonmusk on SpaceX's plan to reach Mars https://t.co/d2cnsVKK80”

“@SpaceActivist88 @JeffGreason @peterrhague @SpaceNotJohn SpaceX will colonize Mars. The fundamental question is whether Earth civilization can maintain its technology level long enough for the colony to grow on its own, even if the supply ships stop coming. If yes, then humanity will pass the single-planet Fermi Great Filter.”

“@ThierryBreton In all seriousness, SpaceX hopes to offer travel to Mars to anyone who wants to go, bearing in mind that it will be like a long sea voyage in centuries past – dangerous and uncomfortable, but great adventure! Becoming multiplanetary ensures the long-term survival of life.”

“@WholeMarsBlog Great progress by the @SpaceX team towards making life multiplanetary!”

“@Everman SpaceX will prob build 30 to 40 rocket cores for ~300 missions over 5 years. Then BFR takes over & Falcon retires. Goal of BFR is to enable anyone to move to moon, Mars & eventually outer planets.”