“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.”
The tweet archive.
15 years of Elon, fully searchable. The production archive uses Supabase as the source of truth, with 94,952 indexed tweets available in development as a full-archive fallback and a curated annotation layer for context, theory, and how major claims aged.
“Congrats to @SpaceX team for launching 2 rockets within 4 hours! https://t.co/kT5T01lxjt”
“Dragon docks with @Space_Station in ~3 hours”
“This is just a very basic first step. Earth and Mars will ultimately need >petabit/sec connectivity.”
“Yes [@cb_doge] Starship is the only realistic path to becoming a Kardashev civilization”
“Just completed static fire test of Flight 3 Super Heavy Booster https://t.co/m0n8RooOlA”
“Starship is designed to carry 100 people [@peterrhague] I don't think the wider public is prepared for what a ridiculously roomy spacecraft Starship will be. Nothing like it since Skylab”
“I added “Santa Claus is riding the dinosaur” 😂 https://t.co/Ha3rsAleBs [@BoosterTribe] @elonmusk this is amazing by @grok . Yes, that was a real sign at @SpaceX”
“Simulation of first crewed flight of Falcon 9 / Dragon 2020 @NASA https://t.co/BSDPYTcVIG”
“Yes [@ElonClipsX] Elon Musk: A lot of companies are honey traps for talented engineers. Tesla and SpaceX aren't honey traps. We're demanding and you'll get a lot of shit done. “I consider one of my core responsibilities running companies to have an environment where great engineers can flourish.”
“1469 Starlink satellites active 272 moving to operational orbits Laser links activate soon”
“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”
“Starlink is an excellent product”
“Today at SpaceX is about practicing Starship engine starts. Ship is held down by massive pins while engines are fired. Two starts completed, about to try a third.”
“We’re changing Starlink’s default wifi name to Stinky”
“Starlink now dynamically connects to the satellite with the best connection updating 10 times a second! [@Starlink] Starlink is built to deliver reliable high-speed internet, even when a customer’s view of the sky isn’t perfect. Starlink terminals automatically switch between satellites in real time to address any degradation in the link → http://starlink.com/beam-switching”
“🚀 for all mankind 🚀 https://t.co/riHsNMQqcP [@astro_reid] @elonmusk Thank you, @elonmusk - the four of us glimpsed the red hues of Mars far in the distance as the sun slipped behind the Moon and there was zero doubt in our minds that the creative genius of our greatest minds will have us there very soon. LETS GO”
“Falcon rocket reentry from space with double sonic booms https://t.co/6DDPjcOgQH”
“World’s most advanced bakery [@SpaceX] Our fully automated bakery in Florida is setup to produce thousands of heat shield tiles per day to outfit the coming fleet of Starship vehicles”
“True [@teslaownersSV] If you’re using Starlink, you’re not just browsing the internet, you’re funding the Mars mission”
“Falcon Heavy [@SpaceX] All systems are looking good for Falcon Heavy’s launch of the @viasat-3 F3 mission from Florida. The 85-minute window opens at 10:13 a.m. ET. Teams are keeping an eye on weather → http://spacex.com/launches/viasat3f3”
“Voting for Trump is voting for Mars! Unless we stop the slow strangulation by overregulation happening in America, we will never become a multiplanetary civilization.”
“Reducing government waste is definitely not rocket science”
“Why is Starship made of stainless steel? This article from 5 years ago explains the reasons. Worth noting that the ship would have failed on reentry if made of aluminum or carbon fiber, as they can’t take the heat. https://t.co/QVAtv74quq https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a25953663/elon-musk-spacex-bfr-stainless-steel/”
“A little more progress to Mars”
“Moving rocket to launch pad https://t.co/nPVq1tyLoy”
“Video Killed the Radio Star [@PeterDiamandis] The human brain processes visual information 60,000x faster than text. Humans are visual processors, not text processors. Images hit the brain instantly. Words take work. That's why a single SpaceX launch video communicates more than a thousand-word essay—and why your slide decks”
“Preparing for Starship 7”
“Starlink now in Dominica! [@Starlink] Starlink's high-speed, low-latency internet is now available in Dominica! 🛰️🇩🇲❤️ → http://starlink.com/dominica”
“Cool @Starlink [@SawyerMerritt] NEWS: World broadcasters in St Peter's for the papal conclave are using SpaceX's @Starlink internet service to get around the comms blackout around the Sistine Chapel. With a camera, microphone and Starlink kit, several TV crews are relying on Musk's company's internet”
“The @SpaceX Dragon is on final docking approach to @Space_Station https://t.co/RZ59ZybU8j”
“Stainless Steel Starship [@XFreeze] Everyone thought the future was carbon fiber Elon Musk looked at the physics and chose stainless steel for Starship instead Sounds insane.... until you realize stainless gets stronger at cryogenic temperatures, handles reentry heat better, and costs massively less than advanced”
“29 more Starlink satellites added to the constellation [@SpaceX] Falcon 9 delivers 29 @Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida”
“Yay! Nice work Dragon Team!”
“@WholeMarsBlog Lmaooo”
“Falcon Heavy at the Cape https://t.co/hizfDVsU7X”
“Will we make Mars self-sustaining before civilization loses the ability to do so? That is the critical question. [@PeterDiamandis] ATLAS SHRUGGED is coming true... Read the book. Who is John Galt?”
“Moon brought us together in ‘69, Mars can do that in the future”
“Aiming for 2 launches of Starlink tonight”
“I resisted AI for too long Living in denial Now it is game on @xAI @Tesla @SpaceX [@MarioNawfal] NVIDIA'S CEO: ELON IS A SUPERHUMAN, IT'S JUST UNBELIEVABLE Jensen Huang: "Just to put in perspective a supercomputer that you would build would take normally three years to plan. And then deliver the equipment it takes one year to get it all working. We're talking about 19”
“Starlink connecting schools in the Amazon”
“If you’re curious about Tesla, SpaceX & my general goings on, @WalterIsaacson is writing a biography”
“🇼🇸 Starlink in Samoa! 🇼🇸”
“Upgrades to @Starlink [@Starlink] Starlink is committed to its mission to connect the unconnected to high-speed, low-latency internet. Over the past year, as millions of new users have been added to the network, speeds and latency continue to improve → http://starlink.com/networkupdate”
“Yes, at massive volume. Maybe as high as 10,000 ships per year. [@iam_smx] SpaceX is going to produce Starships like they're Aeroplanes With a $250 million Gigabay at Starbase, the company is accelerating Starship production. The 700,000-square-foot facility is designed to manufacture up to 1,000 rockets per year.”
“That will be a glorious day for civilization! [@jeffreyweichsel] I can’t wait for humanity to set foot on Mars. It looks amazing!”
“Starship launch & catch tower https://t.co/5mLIQwwu0k”
“Starlink works almost anywhere”
“SpaceX standard policy is to make Starlink free whenever there is a natural disaster somewhere in the world. It would not be right to profit from misfortune. [@Starlink] For those affected by the severe flooding in Indonesia, Starlink is providing free service to new and existing customers through the end of December. We’re also working with the Indonesian government to rapidly deploy terminals and restore connectivity to the hardest-hit areas on… https://x.com/i/web/status/1994474226771005571”
“That is the goal [@aerocopz] Elon Musk @elonmusk shows how his companies work for the benefit of humanity: "SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and The Boring Company are philanthropy. If you say philanthropy is love of humanity, they are philanthropy. Tesla is accelerating sustainable energy; this is philanthropy.”
