“Starlink starting on @United Airlines! [@united] The world's fastest, most reliable Wi-Fi in the sky, @Starlink, has officially landed on our first aircraft, with the rest of our fleet to follow. That means you'll be able to stream, browse and game just like you do at home. And the icing on the digital cake? Starlink will be… )”
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“As a summer intern many years ago, I wrote software for video games at a company called Rocket Science. This was long before SpaceX was even conceived. Didn’t realize until a friend gave me a copy today that they included me in the credits 🥰 https://t.co/adU1J81ESq”
“This video was live-streamed from Antarctica using @Starlink [@MarioNawfal] Because of Starlink, the first person has live streamed the legendary "ice wall" in Antarctica. @Starlink is a game changer for the streaming industry. We can now see places like never before. Amazing.”
“Shortly before the next flight, I will do a live technical update on Starship, going over progress to date and engineering/production/launch plans for the future. [@johnkrausphotos] New SpaceX website looks great!Lots of details on upcoming launches, not just the ones a day or two away. Awesome new Cape Canaveral Starship pad render, too. http://SpaceX.com”
“First firing of Starship Raptor flight engine! So proud of great work by @SpaceX team!! https://t.co/S6aT7Jih4S”
“Yes [@teslaownersSV] “Elon Musk Instead of buying an island or a yacht, he wants to keep putting his chips on the table. He decides he wants to send a rocket to Mars. His friends were like, ‘What are you talking about?’ And Elon says, ‘If we don’t become a spacefaring civilization, human”
“Raptor 3 is engineering art [@XFreeze] Raptor 3 is engineering black magic SpaceX’s Raptor is the FIRST full-flow staged combustion engine to ever fly - only the 3rd ever built (after the Soviet RD-270 and the 2000s US demo that never flew) → Both fuel-rich + oxidizer-rich preburners → 100% of propellant through”
“SpaceX has come a long way, but we are still at the very beginning of making life multiplanetary and being a true spacefaring civilization https://t.co/zHQj02EcOi”
“I just FaceTimed the @framonauts via @Starlink! [@satofishi] Flight Day 4 I woke up early and watched the launch of Starlink Group 11-13 on YouTube. Shortly after, SpaceX contacted us and informed us that we would be flying over Mongolia during the second stage deorbit burn. We opened the cupola and tried to observe the event, but had no”
“Preparing for next Starship flight! This time, I think we have ~50% probability of reaching orbital velocity, however even getting to stage separation would be a win.”
“On empathy [@MarsUniversityX] Elon Musk: "We want to have empathy that is deep, not shallow. I strongly believe we should care about humanity and we should care about the future. But we need to have empathy that is deep, not shallow Shallow empathy is caring about criminals, but deep empathy is caring about”
“Live at @StarbaseTX! [@DeptofWar] LIVE: @SecWar Pete Hegseth speaks during the nationwide Arsenal of Freedom tour at a SpaceX facility in Brownsville, Texas. https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1vOGwdEPqYvJB”
“This is the first time that a rocket has taken off from one country, gone to space and landed in another country! [@MarioNawfal] 🇧🇸 THE BAHAMAS JUST LEVELED UP—WELCOME TO THE SPACE AGE Move over, sun and sand—The Bahamas is now a player in the space game. For the first time, a Falcon 9 rocket booster will land in Exuma Sound, a deep-water basin perfect for rocket recovery. Not bad for a country best… )”
“Look at the tiny cars in the foreground to get a sense of the vastness of the building [@HalcyonHypnotic] Hot take but SpaceX is probably the best civil engineering company in the world. Somehow they are able to make these insanely complex ground system and building designs and find the perfect contractors and technicians to build out their ideas in months or 1-2 years. I feel like”
“A future where we are out there among the planets and the stars is so inspiring! [@dvorahfr] Optimus will prepare for the arrival of humans on Mars. Then the first humans to arrive on Mars, the pioneers, will have a difficult task. It will take men and women with an iron will and unwavering faith in the future. But the goal is so beautiful!”
“Full test duration firing of 3 Raptors on Super Heavy Booster!”
“First reflight of the Starship Super Heavy rocket booster coming up soon! [@SpaceX] Static fire of the Super Heavy preparing to launch Starship's ninth flight test. This booster previously launched and returned on Flight 7 and 29 of its 33 Raptor engines are flight proven”
“Uplink speeds will also improve a lot [@spacesudoer] Starlink will start offering Gigabit speeds NET 2026.”
“We are working on the speed of long context @Grok responses. Should be way faster soon. [@flyme2_mars] @karpathy i have a grok chat that is the best teacher i’ve ever had. it’s kind, never gets tired, and fills my learning gaps like khan academy does, but a little better. now i’m addicted to the chat. i’ve tried to replicate its style in new chats, and it works, but not perfectly. the main”
“💯🇺🇸 [@farzyness] Elon starting a 3rd party is closely akin to Tesla & SpaceX. Low probability of success, but if successful it’ll completely change the game.”
“Best rocket engine ever: Full-flow, staged combustion 330 bar main chamber pressure Highest T/W Inexpensive to build [@teslaownersSV] SpaceX’s Raptor 3 engine is sublime engineering • No basic heat shield needed → saves mass and dramatically boosts reliability • Small fuel leaks aren’t dangerous — they simply burn off safely in the open plasma • Major improvements in payload capacity, efficiency, and… https://x.com/i/web/status/2014586403200610626”
“@DJSnM They will, but the hydraulic system is closed loop, so no fluid lost. They do need more power & energy, but rocket has plenty of that.”
“Starlink is a gamechanger [@SawyerMerritt] NEWS: UK carrier Virgin Atlantic has brought forward its plans to equip its aircraft with @Starlink Wi-Fi. The original plan was to install Starlink in Q3 of this year, but the revised plan will see the airline's first aircraft with Starlink in May (next month). VA says the”
“Exactly [@canraptor_] Elon isn’t just being hyperbolic, overriding contracts like how Sean Duffy is doing is what actually KILLS astronauts. It happened before with the Challenger disaster, Thiokol, the manufacturer of the Boosters, warned against launching because the O-rings were getting stiff and”
“More Starlink [@cb_doge] BREAKING: Bahrain’s national carrier Gulf Air signs a deal with SpaceX’s Starlink to roll out onboard internet across its fleet. Service launches mid year on Airbus A320s and will expand airline wide, offering passengers free Wi Fi in flight.”
“Starship lunar variant update [@SpaceX] Starship continues to simultaneously be the fastest path to returning humans to the surface of the Moon and a core enabler of the Artemis program’s goal to establish a permanent, sustainable presence on the lunar surface → http://spacex.com/updates/#moon-and-beyond”
“And it only gets better from here. Tesla is still on track to launch autonomous ride hailing in Austin in June and roll out to many cities in America by the end of this year. The threshold is achieving safety far in excess of the average human driver. Ultimately, autonomous… [@WholeMarsBlog] Tesla Full Self-Driving (Supervised) 13.2.7 took me from Oakland Airport to San Francisco, crossing the Bay Bridge, and I never touched the steering wheel or pedals once. )”
“Mars sky is the opposite of Earth Blue sunrise and sunset Red during the day https://t.co/RjmSZ98bCz https://x.com/worldandscience/status/935297418651979776”
“You can play real-time video games on Starlink, whereas that is impossible with geostationary satellites that are ~50 times further away. Speed of light is the law.”
“Falcon Heavy hold-down firing this morning was good. Generated quite a thunderhead of steam. Launching in a week or so. https://t.co/npaqatbNir”
“Try Starlink 🇬🇧 [@Telegraph] 🔴 In the UK, Starlink has just started offering high-speed internet for as little as £35 a month - that is cheaper than BT’s equivalent £40 service https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/01/18/elon-musk-has-parked-his-tanks-on-bts-lawn/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_tw_post_his-tanks-on-bts-lawn/”
“@lrocket Exactly. SpaceX was told repeatedly that hiring anyone who was not a permanent resident of the United States would violate international arms trafficking law, which would be a criminal offense. We couldn’t even hire Canadian citizens, despite Canada being part of NORAD! This…”
“Starlink [@SawyerMerritt] Starlink Mini Review: "I’ve written skeptically about Starlink in the past, but as I sat on top of a mountain in the North Cascades watching live NFL games in HD, I couldn’t help but grin; I ran some more real-world tests. The Starlink Mini passed all of them beautifully. I”
“First flight of 10 story tall Grasshopper rocket using closed loop thrust vector & throttle control http://t.co/NH24BQMH http://yfrog.us/f362mloybjbosdefkdeoytqsz”
“Starlink is providing Internet connectivity to schools and hospitals in Africa that had nothing or very expensive and bad connectivity before. This will do more to lift people out of poverty than all the NGOs combined. [@SawyerMerritt] NEWS: SpaceX's @Starlink has reached a new milestone in Kenya, recording 19,460 active users as of September 2025, marking the satellite provider’s highest subscriber count since entering the Kenyan market.”
“Medium resolution images, music & audio podcasts should work with the current generation Starlink direct-to-phone constellation. Next generation constellation will do medium resolution video. [@MarioNawfal] 🚨GAME CHANGER: APPLE QUIETLY ADDS STARLINK TO IPHONES IN iOS 18.3 Apple just opened iPhone doors to Starlink's satellite network, giving users an alternative to their Globalstar service for off-grid communication. The key difference? No more pointing your phone at the sky -… )”
“Got more great feedback from Thailand. Primary path is basically a tiny, kid-size submarine using the liquid oxygen transfer tube of Falcon rocket as hull. Light enough to be carried by 2 divers, small enough to get through narrow gaps. Extremely robust.”
“Bring any photo to life in 15 seconds with @Grok Imagine! [@BigImpactHumans] Famous photograph of SpaceX engineers working on Starship, brought to life with Grok Imagine 🪄”
“Hustling to get Starship Booster 7 back to pad to test outer ring of 20 engines”
“@PPathole We should bring Life to Mars”
“Both JSON and natural language work for Grok Imagine. And remember to keep updating your @Grok app, as we release improvements every few days! [@MemesOfMars] @xmliisu Why so complicated? @Grok knows human language and doesn’t render JSON: so it removes all brackets, quotes, colons before rendering. What Grok actually sees: ——— Hyper-realistic cinematic portrait in 8K resolution, Photography (DSLR) with 85mm f/1.4 lens, sharp focus on face… https://x.com/i/web/status/1993040129884029075”
“@beboutside @Hyperloop @SpaceX @paradigm_hype @swissloop SpaceX and The Boring Company are running the Hyperloop competition”
“It is a hard path to 100GW/year of AI in space, but we know what to do [@Teslaconomics] This statement mind boggles Ron Baron. Elon is talking about putting 25% of U.S.’s electricity output of solar powered AI satellites into orbit. Best believe SpaceX’s Starlink and Tesla’s energy business is going to benefit materially from this. “We see a path to putting 100”
“During this mission, Dragon will travel repeatedly through the orbital altitudes of over 10 thousand satellites and bits of space debris. No room for error in our calculations.”
“Starbase is an area that experiences storms and hurricanes that are far more serious than Starship launches. The real headline of this article is boring, because it would say “Starship Launches Cause No Damage” 😂”
“Internet connectivity brings prosperity [@XFreeze] Elon Musk explains how Starlink will actually move the GDP of countries “If you don’t have access to the internet, or it’s too expensive or low bandwidth, you cannot access MIT lessons, you can’t access information, and you can’t sell your goods and services” Starlink changes”
“Falcon fairing halves missed the net, but touched down softly in the water. Mr Steven is picking them up. Plan is to dry them out & launch again. Nothing wrong with a little swim.”
“Starlink continuity test with Diablo Hardcore. Any major lag or a brief loss of connection means permadeath, so it is the best test. https://t.co/fqclozxLwN”
“Dragon blazing across the sky 10 times faster than a supersonic bullet [@DavidSHolz] me and my friends just watched a SpaceX crew capsule re-enter the atmosphere soaring with fire across the stars over San Francisco, it was way more beautiful and inspiring than i expected. imagining people safe inside of it felt emotional. gosh you could really see the flames!”
“Cool! Starlink will keep improving as we launch more satellites. [@SawyerMerritt] Review of @Starlink on United Airlines: "It is an absolute game changer. I had download speeds in excess of 250 Mbps, and upload speeds of nearly 30 Mbps. With Starlink, I can do anything in the air that I could do on the ground."”
