“At ~5000 tons, Starship is the largest flying object ever made”
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“Starlink is not allowed to operate in South Africa, because I’m not black [@MarioNawfal] 🚨🇿🇦SOUTH AFRICA IS ON THE EDGE OF A SOCIALIST ABYSS Robert Hersov: "140 race-based laws in South Africa, all anti-white. There's been endless laws, anti-white, boiling us like a frog in a bowl. And all I can say is thank you, America, and thank you, Donald Trump, for… )”
“Potential Tesla/SpaceX collab: ride hailing works even if you’re in space!”
“Falcon Heavy side boosters land in Cape Canaveral, Florida https://t.co/2rV2g5ff6B”
“Successful soft landing of the Starship Super Heavy rocket booster!”
“Starlink now in Argentina!”
“Starship is the most power flying object ever created. Currently over twice the thrust of Saturn V and, with future upgrades, three times the thrust (10,000 tons of force).”
“Starship separates from booster https://t.co/YZJzi122DV”
“Only 66 years from first flight to landing on the moon, but now half a century has passed since the last moon landing. That cannot be our high water mark as a civilization. Humanity should have a moon base, cities on Mars and be out there among the stars!”
“Starlink now available in Chad!”
“What Earthlooks like in radio frequency from the @Starlink direct to phone satellites https://t.co/HATVQIsLQT”
“There is no legal basis for this whatsoever. Starlink is a different company with different shareholders. Moraes, the charlatan in judges robes, cannot even cite a law that Starlink has broken!”
“A fully reusable rocket with orbital refilling is the critical breakthrough needed to make life multiplanetary. For the first time in 4.5 billion years.”
“Starship launch attempt in ~7 hours”
“Starship departs for Mars at the end of next year, carrying Optimus. If those landings go well, then human landings may start as soon as 2029, although 2031 is more likely. [@Teslaconomics] Happy 23rd Anniversary to @SpaceX! Founded on March 14, 2002, and still pushing the limits of what’s possible, here’s to the next chapter of making life multi-planetary!”
“Launching @Starlink in Fiji with @PresidentFiji! https://t.co/mOmf2HNkm9”
“Starship reached orbital velocity! Congratulations @SpaceX team!!”
“Starship booster recovered from sea Like the ruins of a long dead civilization https://t.co/aoypJT9T26”
“Pictures of people working inside Starship [@spacesudoer] Starship is gigantic!”
“And now it is time for America to reach far greater heights by sending astronauts to Mars! Ultimately, anyone who wants to be a space traveler and help build a new civilization on Mars should be able to do so. That is an inspiring future!”
“Starlink just achieved a new internal median latency record of 28ms yesterday! Great work by the engineering and operations teams.”
“Starship will hopefully depart for Mars at the end of next year with Optimus explorer robots! [@MAstronomers] This is Mars! 140 million miles away from us!”
“Great work by the SpaceX Falcon team launching 14 times in a single month!”
“Congratulations to the @SpaceX and @NASA teams for another safe astronaut return! Thank you to @POTUS for prioritizing this mission! [@SpaceX] Splashdown of Dragon confirmed – welcome back to Earth, Nick, Suni, Butch, and Aleks!”
“Starlink Mini”
“Tesla & SpaceX/Starlink doing our best to be helpful to Hawaii”
“Despite loss of many tiles and a damaged flap, Starship made it all the way to a soft landing in the ocean! Congratulations @SpaceX team on an epic achievement!!”
“Starlink now available in Zimbabwe!”
“Starship is now more than twice as powerful as the Saturn V Moon rocket and, in a year or so, it will be three times as powerful at 10,000 metric tons of thrust. More importantly, it is designed to be fully reusable, burning ~80% liquid oxygen and ~20% liquid methane (very low…”
“May Starship serve as a beacon of hope for the future”
“SpaceX just achieved peak download speed of 17Mb/s from satellite direct to unmodified Samsung Android phone https://t.co/JqPHmkriv0”
“The first Starlink satellite direct to cell phone constellation is now complete. This will enable unmodified cellphones to have Internet connectivity in remote areas. Bandwidth per beam is only ~10Mb, but future constellations will be much more capable.”
“100th rocket landing this year”
“Emerging from Dragon for spacewalk https://t.co/OfV8uB3ycd”
“Starship Flight 6 tomorrow https://t.co/oOdRG30qOl”
“Ok, we’re thinking too small with Starship”
“Starship rocket booster with human for scale”
“Successful ocean landing of Starship! We will do one more ocean landing of the ship. If that goes well, then SpaceX will attempt to catch the ship with the tower.”
“Mars is The New World [@teslaownersSV] The Starship will extend life beyond earth. The first ever designed rocket to go to Mars. )”
“Starlink now operating on over 1000 aircraft! Using Starlink on a plane feels like you’re on a high speed ground fiber connection.”
“This is the first time humans have been in orbit around the poles of Earth! [@SpaceX] First views of Earth's polar regions from Dragon”
“Starlink available in Yemen!”
“Many remote schools and hospitals depend on SpaceX’s Starlink! SpaceX will provide Internet service to users in Brazil for free until this matter is resolved, as we cannot receive payment, but don’t want to cut anyone off.”
“Starship hot stage separation https://t.co/iGA2xJ0PRn”
“Dragon docks with @Space_Station. Strange to think that they’re both traveling at ~25 times speed of sound!”
“Yes [@liz_churchill10] WOW. Senator Marsha Blackburn asks Kash Patel to release UNREDACTED Epstein Flight Names and Island Footage after claiming Democrats have blocked her from doing so for years. )”
“Congratulations @SpaceX team! https://t.co/m5pV56OaeZ”
“Although Boeing got $4.2 billion to develop an astronaut capsule and SpaceX only got $2.6 billion, SpaceX finished 4 years sooner. Note, the crew capsule design of Dragon 2 has almost nothing in common with Dragon 1. Too many non-technical managers at Boeing.”
“Welcome to Mars https://t.co/cyvEEVRD7L”
“Prelude to Mars”
