“@ErcXspace @NASASpaceflight @SpaceX Long-term, ship would land on tower arms, like booster”
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“@Erdayastronaut @CopSub In our experience, COPV gain/pain flattens out above 6000 psi and is <1 above 10,000 psi, unless volume constrained like Dragon. Heating from pressurization & cooling from depressurization also become major problems at very high pressure.”
“RT @cb_doge: This picture was taken on Mars yesterday. https://t.co/auyKZUlikd”
“@GailAlfarATX Starship has 33 engines! If an engine failure is isolated, then many engines greatly increases reliability (Starship only loses <3% of thrust). If not, then reliability is terrible. The difference is at least 2 orders of magnitude.”
“@WholeMarsBlog Automatically drive to most obvious location unless occupant says otherwise”
“@Erdayastronaut We’ve already done a lot of iteration on ship. For rapid reusability, booster must return to launchpad, so inert mass impacts ascent, boostback & landing burns. Triple whammy. Also, booster flight rate is ~5X that of ship, so multiple mass $ cost by 5.”
“@teslaownersSV @BillyM2k @WholeMarsBlog It sure is hard to find a news source that’s accurate, relevant & not totally depressing! Old-school version of The Economist & Jon Stewart Daily Show / Colbert Report were great.”
“RT @iam_smx: Next time you are thinking of giving up remember this photo. 2006 - Elon Musk staring at debris from Falcon 1, which was the…”
“@existentialcoms That article was pushed as propaganda to counter IMF study showing fossil fuel subsidies to be $5 trillion/year. Even if $4.9B was true, combined market cap of Tesla & SpaceX is $80B. Where did the other $75B come from? Ass 🎩 …”
“Deeply honored and appreciative of the trust that @NASA has placed in @SpaceX for the future of human spaceflight”
“@PPathole @Rainmaker1973 The amazing part will be having an orbital rocket that is fully & rapidly reusable with any payload at all! Everyone else gave up when they realized that their fully reusable payload<0. We still have a long way to go.”
“@MrManderly @mysteriouskat @Independent @rustyrockets Good point. Politicians & political parties should be supported on their merits, not like they are one’s favorite sports team.”
“@SpaceXMR Heavy comes in more like a javelin. Similar to Falcon 9, but caught by the tower vs landing on legs.”
“@RocketLab Congrats on many successful launches!”
“@Cmdr_Hadfield @astroscale_HQ We could make a hungry hippo version of Starship to chomp and deorbit space debris”
“RT @SpaceX: Falcon 9 has landed, completing our final planned landing at LZ-1 https://t.co/ZlW1Ptp7DG”
“@DimaZeniuk @SpaceX @SirineAti @captainarve @andst7 @WholeMarsBlog @EvasTeslaSPlaid @GailAlfarATX @JaneidyEve @TeslaAIBot @1stMarsColonist And we need to add 3 more Raptor Vacuum engines, because it’s inevitable”
“@Erdayastronaut Building 100 Starships/year gets to 1000 in 10 years or 100 megatons/year or maybe around 100k people per Earth-Mars orbital sync”
“Ascent phase & satellites look good, but booster rocket had a RUD on droneship”
“RT @SpaceX: Installing the redesigned fuel transfer tube into the first next generation Super Heavy booster. Roughly the same size as the…”
“@JTLonsdale @JeffBezos In past years, Blue Origin also sued to stop SpaceX from using what is now our primary launchpad at 39A and tried to patent landing a rocket on a ship, even though that idea had been around for 70 years!”
“@DolllarPo Service turns on next month, which is same time required to deliver a user terminal, so order now at https://t.co/Q1VvqV58aK http://Starlink.com”
“RT @Starlink: Starlink will soon be available on British Airways, Aer Lingus, Iberia, Level and Vueling aircraft. Stream, game, work and m…”
“@WholeMarsBlog I just watched this at 2X speed on this platform”
“@WholeMarsBlog The amazing part is being so high on the list despite not using BCG”
“@tobyliiiiiiiiii @Erdayastronaut @NASASpaceflight Might just catch the ship with the launch tower, same as booster”
“@l3nnybob @Grimezsz Preferably, on Mars”
“@WholeMarsBlog Team found a bug causing an 8% delay in detecting pedestrians at >50m. That’s been fixed, so rolling out tonight.”
“@flcnhvy @AstroBehnken @Astro_Doug @SpaceX Still long way to go. Reuse only matters to degree that it’s rapid & complete.”
“@rustyrockets @shellenberger @mtaibbi @rumblevideo Good question”
“@prmshra Don’t be silly. I oversaw the SpaceX engineering team that built the Dragon LiDARs used to dock with @Space_Station! They are simply the wrong solution for a complex terrestrial road system that was designed for biological neural nets and eyes. Therefore the right, imo only,…”
“RT @SpaceX: The Starship preparing for our ninth flight test completed a single engine static fire demonstrating an in-space burn https://t…”
“RT @SpaceX: The @framonauts flew aboard Dragon’s 17th human spaceflight mission – with 66 crewmembers now having flown aboard the spacecraf…”
“@WatchersTank @SpaceX Just one skyscraper catching another nbd haha”
“@IlyaRosenberg @Caspar_Stanley @Erdayastronaut @SpaceX @SuperHeavyBN3 They are now the same (LOX below CH4). Ox is 3.5 times heavier than fuel, so makes sense to have it lower.”
“@Neopork85 @Caspar_Stanley @ErcXspace @MarcusHouseGame @FelixSchlang @C_Bass3d @nickhenning3d @SpaceX Tiles will be on hot side of flaps too. A very tough problem is sealing the moving flap to body joint without melting or shredding the seal.”
“@WholeMarsBlog @teslaownersSV @SpaceX I’m driving “alpha” 9, but we need to fix some obvious issues before releasing beta 9, hopefully next week. FSD subscription capability should be turning on via the Tesla app.”
“@Erdayastronaut @SpaceX All of that and more. We’re doing a broad review of launch site, propulsion, structures, avionics, range & regulatory constraints this weekend. I will also be at the Cape next week to review hardware in person.”
“@WholeMarsBlog Internal beta rollout tonight, wider tomorrow”
“RT @SpaceX: Falcon 9 lifts off from Florida, adding 21 @Starlink satellites to the constellation and completing our 400th overall mission w…”
“@WholeMarsBlog Should be improved soon”
“@yasin_shafiei @thejackbeyer @NASASpaceflight @BocaChicaGal @NicAnsuini Late next month maybe, but November seems highly likely. We will have two boosters & ships ready for orbital flight by then, with full stack production at roughly one every two months.”
“@WeDragonSlayers Flesh without Blood & Kill V Maim on Art Angels album https://t.co/MycGWvbYGk https://open.spotify.com/album/5hB4jVN4ZHpubyiMmW81K1?si=w_40XQKaQeOx5HfdWR4-0Q”
“@WholeMarsBlog To assess if a drug is good, whether legal or illegal, the acid test is being able to say: [blank] made me a better person.”
“@kimbal Starship can enable a permanently crewed science station on the Moon, which would be super cool! Moonbase Alpha!!”
“RT @BillAckman: Consider the impact of Starlink becoming available everywhere and @X as a free global news and information platform, when t…”
“@inmotionadvies @wholemars @RDWnl @TeslaOwnersNL @KRoelandschap I guess we have different naming conventions in Europe, but this is basically v14.3”
“@Erdayastronaut @SpaceX Aim for zero velocity just above surface & fall. You won’t fall fast.”
“@SciGuySpace Troubling. I am very much in favor of science, but unfortunately cannot participate in NASA budget discussions, due to SpaceX being a major contractor to NASA.”
“@BrentM_SpaceX @xai The @xAI Colossus team is great. Thanks also to the many contractors, the TVA and others who have helped make it happen!”
