“I can’t say for sure that Starship will reach escape velocity, but my hubris certainly has”
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.
“Falcon Heavy goes vertical https://t.co/uG1k0WISv1”
“Stainless Steel Starship https://t.co/rRoiEKKrYc”
“Three Raptors on a Starship https://t.co/UrRiD62EVk”
“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”
“Starlink gives you fast Internet anywhere on Earth [@Starlink] Fast, reliable internet in even the most rural and remote areas 🛰️❤️”
“@WholeMarsBlog Politics is war and truth is the first casualty”
“Starlink now on all @HawaiianAir Airbus planes!”
“@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?”
“Starlink now available in over 120 countries! [@Starlink] Starlink’s high-speed, low-latency internet is now available in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines! 🛰️🇻🇨❤️ → http://starlink.com/map?country=VC”
“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.”
“True [@ApoStructura] Without SpaceX China would be the world leader in spaceflight and the US would be playing catch-up https://x.com/i/web/status/2011181053428265297”
“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.”
“More Starlinks in orbit”
“Starship nosecone, high bay & tiki bar https://t.co/9qXYxMMIUj”
“Falcon 9 launches 30 satellites”
“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”
“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.”
“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. )”
“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.”
“Sorry, slight glitch with @SpaceX Starlink. Coming back online now.”
“@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”
“450 Falcon flights [@SpaceX] Falcon completes its 450th mission! )”
“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”
“@slashdot This seems extortionately high. It also isn’t clear whether, all things considered, a second booster helps or hurts.”
“Cool, glad @Starlink could help!”
“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!”
“Starlink now works for high latitudes”
“That’s an old pic. Starship will get longer. [@teslaownersSV] The scale of the Starship is insane and 🤯🤯🤯”
“Congrats SpaceX Team & @SpaceForceDoD on completing 3 orbital Vandenberg launches in 11 days! Might be a record.”
“Starlink is now available in Qatar! 🇶🇦 [@Starlink] Starlink's high-speed, low-latency internet is now available in Qatar! 🛰️🇶🇦❤️ → http://starlink.com/qatar”
“100th SpaceX rocket landing was today”
“Yeah [@muskosophy] Elon Musk on how Tesla and SpaceX have helped their competitors: “Nothing any of my companies have done has been to stifle competition. In fact, we've done the opposite. At Tesla, we have open-sourced our patents. Anyone can use our patents for free. How many companies do you… https://x.com/i/web/status/2021495748894883890”
“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”
“Yes [@XFreeze] Elon Musk reveals the deeper purpose of becoming a multiplanetary species: “Having two planets that are both self-sustaining and strong is going to be incredibly important for the long-term survival of civilization The goal is not just to visit Mars - it’s to ensure the light”
“Starship launch in ~17 minutes! [@SpaceX] Watch Starship's ninth flight test → http://spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-9”
“Unless civilization collapses, @SpaceX will make life multiplanetary”
“100k terminals shipped! https://t.co/Q1VvqVmJ2i http://Starlink.com”
“Good progress by the SpaceX Starlink team on reducing ping (latency)!”
“This is despite @SpaceX competitors increasing their launch rates. SpaceX is an anomaly in the matrix. Nothing can compare to a system designed to make life/consciousness multiplanetary. [@EvaFoxU] SpaceX will launch over 90% of all of Earth’s payload mass to orbit this year! 🤯 When Starship is launching at high rate, SpaceX will probably carry >99% of Earth’s payload mass to orbit!”
“HAL opened the pod bay doors ❤️ [@SpaceX] Open the pod bay door, HAL Starship deploying @Starlink simulator sats”
“Several thousand more Starlink beta participation invitations going out this week”
“#OccupyMars”
“Starlink Super Bowl ad! Affordable Internet anywhere. https://t.co/Q1VvqV5G0i https://t.co/szhJMG4LaZ http://Starlink.com”
“NASA puts their faith in @SpaceX for all astronaut transport to and from the @Space_Station, but somehow @FAANews leadership thinks they know better …”
“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.”
“Starship V3 rocket booster [@SpaceX] Booster 19 preparing to begin prelaunch testing”
“22 more Starlinks”
