“Indeed, it was *because* I was not from the aerospace industry that SpaceX made such radical breakthroughs. Same for Tesla. Those in the industry would have if they could have. [@ray4tesla] In this 2015 interview, the host — a Tsinghua University professor — expressed genuine curiosity about how Elon Musk was able to found SpaceX without prior experience and knowledge in aerospace, especially given that rocket science is one of the most demanding hard sciences — and”
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“Due to continued design improvements, this Falcon 9 carried its highest ever payload of 17.5 tons of useful load to a useful orbit”
“SpaceX will launch over 90% of all of Earth’s payload mass to orbit this year. China will be ~5% and rest of world, including rest of America, around 5%. When Starship is launching at high rate, SpaceX will probably carry >99% of Earth’s payload mass to orbit. This is… [@esherifftv] The FAA has released a draft environmental assessment to increase Falcon 9 launches at SLC-40 from 50 to 120 and to build a new landing zone at SLC-40.”
“You can watch live sports in 8k in Antarctica with @Starlink”
“@WholeMarsBlog You do, that’s the fundamental difference”
“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… )”
“I have so much respect for the associates doing an honest day’s work at Tesla or SpaceX building & servicing cars, rockets, Starlinks, batteries, solar & many other things”
“Our best landing video to date, thanks to Starlink!”
“🚀 [@thatsKAIZEN] Every American owes it to themselves to go see a SpaceX rocket launch. They’re a reminder that there's more to life than politics and problems. It would be useful to make this a field trip for public schools. There is no better demonstration of what makes America special.”
“Two Starship tanks in the midbay https://t.co/QJ2V882WOC”
“Starship test flight rocket just finished assembly at the @SpaceX Texas launch site. This is an actual picture, not a rendering. https://t.co/k1HkueoXaz”
“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”
“@cb_doge @Twitter @mayemusk @Tesla @SpaceX Top change requests and features?”
“SpaceX direct to cell phone growing fast https://t.co/zzOAerzvME”
“Too many question marks about this flight and then we were 20 bar low on ground spin start pressure. Best to destack, inspect both stages and try again in a day or two. [@SpaceX] Standing down from today’s flight test attempt. Starship team is determining the next best available opportunity to fly)”
“Starlink now available in Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [@Starlink] Starlink's high-speed, low-latency internet is now available in Kazakhstan! 🛰️🇰🇿❤️ → http://starlink.com/kazakhstan”
“Grok hits new high [@cb_doge] BREAKING: Grok hits a new high on Google Trends. Popularity and real world usage are skyrocketing globally. 🔥”
“@WholeMarsBlog Me neither”
“There will probably be another 10m added to the Starship stack before we increase diameter”
“SpaceX is alien-level technology”
“😂💯 [@aphysicist] starlink on every plane right now what the hell are we even doing”
“Order at https://t.co/Q1VvqV58aK http://Starlink.com [@historyinmemes] This guy tested Starlink in the middle of the ocean and played CS2 with almost perfect ping”
“Always on mission [@SERobinsonJr] The lobby of the SpaceX Starlink factory in Bastrop, Texas. The 'Earth to Mars' orbital transfer ellipse.”
“❤️ [@WholeMarsBlog] I was banned from Twitter when I ran an account called Steve Jobs Ghost. My Cyberstalker Aaron Jacob Greenspan was terrorizing me and many others, and sent a bunch of fake copyright takedown notices to Twitter to get them to take my account then. A federal court later ruled I”
“Highlights of the @SpaceX company talk”
“Testing Starship heatshield hex tiles https://t.co/PycE9VthxQ”
“Starlink is now available in 140 countries & territories! And, of course, anywhere on the oceans. [@Starlink] Starlink is connecting more than 6M people with high-speed internet across 140 countries, territories and many other markets. Thank you to all our customers around the world! 🛰️🌎❤️ → http://starlink.com/stories-6M”
“Starship B7 static fire https://t.co/taBpsd9LSV”
“Starlink now available in Burundi!”
“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!”
“Starlink is now active on all continents, including Antarctica https://t.co/Q1VvqV5G0i http://Starlink.com”
“Great work by the @Starlink team. Rebuilding the whole Internet in space is not easy. [@Starlink] Starlink is connecting more than 9M active customers with high-speed internet across 155 countries, territories and many other markets. Thank you to all our customers around the world! 🛰️❤️🌎 → http://starlink.com/9M”
“Even if you have a super high bandwidth land connection, Starlink is great as a backup option in case of emergencies”
“Full test duration firing of 3 Raptors on Super Heavy Booster!”
“Starship is the biggest flying object ever made [@teslaownersSV] Rockets of the world, The scale of the Starship is insane. 🤯🤯”
“Travel anywhere on Earth (that’s willing to allow loud rockets) in half an hour or so at Mach 25! [@MarioNawfal] ELON WANTS TO REPLACE PLANES WITH ROCKETS SpaceX’s Starship could take you from New York to Sydney in under an hour. It skips jetlag by literally launching you into space and back down somewhere else. It’s like teleportation but with fire and Elon energy. Would you ditch”
“Over 250k Starlink user terminals”
“Hawaiian Airlines now has super fast @Starlink Internet!”
“Special version of Starship: delete heat shield & flaps, add landing legs. This could (of course) only be used between trans lunar orbit and lunar surface, given no heat shield or flaps.”
“2 heavy-class rocket flights in 10 hours [@XFreeze] SPACEX IS ON ABSOLUTE FIRE RIGHT NOW🔥 TWO Falcon 9 launches in the last 10 HOURS - Starlink 17-24 from Vandenberg - Starlink 10-46 from Cape Canaveral 50+ satellites dropped in one day like it’s nothing Literally no one else can pull this off But It's just another day at”
“Rapidly Reusable Rockets, R R R 🏴☠️”
“Starlink soon to be available on @United Airlines [@Starlink] Starlink's high-speed internet will soon be available on @united flights. Stream, game, work and more from gate to gate 🛰️✈️”
“True [@xdNiBoR] Without SpaceX, China would have outlaunched the US for years.”
“91st Falcon flight of 2023”
“Watch the Starship flight live on 𝕏!”
“Tracking shot of Falcon water landing https://t.co/6Hv2aZhLjM”
“Perhaps an interesting milestone: @SpaceX commercial revenue from space will exceed the entire budget of @NASA next year. SpaceX revenue this year will be ~$15.5B, of which NASA is ~$1.1B.”
“This is a major reason why @realDonaldTrump must win. Unless something is done about strangulation by overregulation, humanity will never reach Mars.”
“SpaceX is Caesar’s XIII Legion level good [@DeepBlueCrypto] "Somebody I know went to work for SpaceX and said, 'It's like being dropped into a zone of shocking competence.' The best engineers in the world want to work for Elon Musk because he's the one CEO who's able to work with them as a peer."”
“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”
