“@Erdayastronaut Detanking & inspections now. Good progress towards our “Hop in & go to Mars!” goal.”
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“@WholeMarsBlog @ValerianIlies People still don’t get it”
“Btw, not saying we *should* nuke Mars -- just layin' out a few options …”
“@RenataKonkoly Maybe we should make an actual Starship model that dispenses pez for our merch store”
“@InfographicTony @MarcusHouse @FelixSchlang @considercosmos @GregScott_photo @LunarCaveman @SpaceX @SpacesFuture @TJ_Cooney @LabPadre @Erdayastronaut Three center Raptors of Booster will fire at ~50% thrust during hot staging”
“@WholeMarsBlog Big improvement in high speed cross-traffic velocity NN coming next month”
“@TechnologicAli Started Zip2 with ~$2k & ~$100k of student debt, rolled proceeds into X/PayPal, rolled proceeds again into SpaceX/Tesla, but these are all companies where I played fundamental founding role. Not right to ask others to put in money if I don’t put in mine.”
“@kausthav_ray @SpaceX Structures, engines, avionics, guidance & control software, new alloys, space lasers (ooh, maybe I shouldn’t have said that) …”
“A Million Humans Could Live on Mars By the 2060s https://t.co/d0nlk1xfOl via @NatGeo http://on.natgeo.com/2cTNcqn”
“@MarioNawfal SpaceX has no need for additional capital and will actually be buying back shares. We do liquidity rounds for employees and investors every ~6 months.”
“@kimitalvitie @Erdayastronaut @SpaceXNow @ChrisG_NSF @NASASpaceflight Not bad”
“@SpaceForceCSO @SemperCitiusSDA Thank you for entrusting @SpaceX with this mission”
“@Adamklotz_ @SpaceX SN15 rolls to launch pad in a few days. It has hundreds of design improvements across structures, avionics/software & engine. Hopefully, one of those improvements covers this problem. If not, then retrofit will add a few more days.”
“RT @Rainmaker1973: When you're on a plane and accidentally catch a Falcon 9 lifoff. [📹 chefpinkpr] https://t.co/YJUb1xdIK9”
“@DimaZeniuk Steel also had the advantage over carbon fiber of not driving SpaceX into bankruptcy making Starship”
“@SawyerMerritt Important to note that this is *total* bandwidth within a cell, so would be divided among all phones. Starlink will be great for text messages, voice calls & low res pics. If only a dozen phones are active, which is true in remote regions, then video will work.”
“@WR4NYGov True. I love NASA, but they will only be ~5% of SpaceX revenue this year. Vast majority of SpaceX revenue is the commercial Starlink system.”
“@torybruno Good chart. This is a major reason why we moved Starlink from ~1100km orbit to ~550km. Atmosphere automatically clears the lower altitude within a few years, so space junk cannot accumulate.”
“@DeltavPhotos @PortCanaveral That rocket is a hardcore veteran of many missions”
“@SemiAnalysis_ @BrentM_SpaceX 😉 Still small fry at 1GW. For serious power in the 100GW continuous range (~1/5 of USA average power consumption), it probably needs to be solar/battery powered. At 1TW+, solar/battery is the only realistic option.”
“@Starlink Passed pit 106 on @Starlink #1 Hardcore rank (at least for now) https://t.co/xYHHC1LKWC”
“@MatthewDR @MDouhne @TeslaBoomerMama @herbertong @farzyness @DillonLoomis22 @WholeMarsBlog @SawyerMerritt @4Kpodcast @live_munro Interesting thread”
“Dragon can also hover & land propulsively, but we use the parachutes for maximum safety https://t.co/Mr7VFIQwWf https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=07Pm8ZY0XJI”
“@AustinTeslaClub @SpaceX @austinbarnard45 @PPathole @TeslaOwnersEBay @bluemoondance74 @teslaownersSV @JohnnaCrider1 @TeslaNY Absolutely!”
“@muskQu0tes @SpaceX Had to be done”
“@teslaownersSV We are mapping out a game plan to get a million people to Mars. Civilization only passes the single-planet Great Filter when Mars can survive even if Earth supply ships stop coming.”
“@SciGuySpace Dragon enters like a shooting star”
“@SenBillNelson @SpaceX Thank you, sir! Looking forward to serving NASA in returning humanity to the Moon.”
“@SciGuySpace @BryceSpaceTech SpaceX Falcon team is 🔥🔥🔥”
“@SpaceX Telemetry indicates soft touchdown on the water, so fairing might still be reusable”
“@lrocket The transition to argon was tricky, but necessary, as krypton is too rare”
“Rocket soft landed in the ocean within 10m of target & nicely vertical! High probability of good droneship landing in non-stormy weather.”
“Falcon 9 experienced a problem shortly before first stage shutdown. Will provide more info as soon as we review the data.”
“First draft animation of the Falcon Heavy three core launch. FH is twice the thrust of the next… https://t.co/vgZxF6ugoh https://www.instagram.com/p/BXXiVWFgphb/”
“@matthewdmarsden Yeah, legal immigration is totally broken. Should be smooth and easy.”
“Falcon 9 rocket now vertical at Cape Canaveral on launch complex 39-A. This is the same launch… https://t.co/wY6dWRcer3 https://www.instagram.com/p/BQWBz9zgOTP/”
“With the version 3 Starlink satellites, which start launching on Starship in 6 to 9 months, we should be able to get latency below 20ms. The new, much larger satellites will be at ~350km instead of ~550km altitude, which cuts latency due to speed of light down to ~5ms. Also,”
“@JessePeltan For anything to do with engineering and science for sure, but Imperial has a certain romantic charm for civilian use. I set a more intuitive variant of metric for Starship: tons for force and mass, bar for pressure. It’s easier to do mental math, eg thrust to mass ratio, than”
“@markusdd5 Given that several companies make advanced chips, but no companies have ever made fully reusable rockets or achieved SpaceX scale, I think Starship is harder, but we shall see. Terafab will technically be two fabs, each making only one chip design. This greatly simplifies”
“@WholeMarsBlog The Washington Post’s current slogan is “Democracy Dies in Darkness”. Catchy – for sure – but then what’s up with the paywall for news!?”
“@bluemoondance74 @NASASpaceflight @SpaceX “Comes in discreet packaging””
“Here is the latest SpaceX travel ad for the flight around the moon & into deep space. Maybe needs a few edits ... https://t.co/mA8ZgutrbE https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DNkKCFaqib8”
“Still working on the Falcon fireball investigation. Turning out to be the most difficult and complex failure we have ever had in 14 years.”
“@aaronburnett “Outsourcing” is impossible when the rest of industry will do less than 10% or SpaceX’s mass to orbit”
“@NASAGoddard @SpaceX .@SpaceX team would be so honored to fly this for @NASA!”
“Falcon Heavy is this times three. One way or another, launch is guaranteed to be exciting ... https://t.co/FPUNALj0Hd https://x.com/spacex/status/867568781928701954”
“@WholeMarsBlog No, it’s dual, high performance terminals, which are important for maintaining the connection in choppy seas & heavy storms. Still obv premium pricing, but way cheaper & faster than alternatives. SpaceX was paying $150k/month for a much worse connection to our ships!”
“@ChrisG_NSF We are proceeding very carefully. If there is a RUD on the pad, Starship progress will be set back by ~6 months.”
“This time, the vacuum tunnel will be a bit longer & SpaceX will provide some advance funding for student teams with most promising designs. Bonus award for all race pods that exceed half the speed of sound!”
“@ashleevance Hardly anyone knows that there was a massive effort to block SpaceX from providing astronaut transport for NASA”
