“@OliOnOrbit Falcon 9 is technically a heavy lift rocket. If flown as an expendable, payload to orbit is similar to Delta IV Heavy (~25 tons to LEO). And Starship is ~10 times bigger.”
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.
“RT @SpaceX: Counting down to Starship's eleventh flight test. The launch window opens on Monday at 6:15 p.m. CT and weather is currently 80…”
“@SciGuySpace SpaceX will do orbital refilling several times next year with Starship V3. Because we are simply docking with ourself, this is a much easier problem than docking with the Space Station, which SpaceX already does several times a year.”
“@FutureJurvetson @_BryceTech @SpaceX Once Starship is flying frequently with real payloads next year, then SpaceX will probably deliver >95% of total Earth payload to orbit, despite others, especially China, continuing to grow. In 2027, maybe as high as 98%.”
“@ajtourville A stainless steel Starship is essentially the same mass as an advanced carbon fiber or aluminum-lithium version, given that it is a reusable rocket, as steel can handle much higher heat loads, requiring less shielding, and its strength increases dramatically at cryogenic…”
“@tobyliiiiiiiiii @RationalEtienne @SPEXcast @William_M_Brown @PPathole @thesheetztweetz @waEMD @SpaceX @SpaceXStarlink @WANationalGuard Oh yeah, Starship update coming in about 3 weeks. The design has coalesced. What is presented will actually be what flies to orbit as V1.0 with almost no changes.”
“@PPathole @nextspaceflight @NASASpaceflight @BocaChicaGal @SpaceX Actually, so-called “secondary” structure is the hard part – so many pipes & wires. Tall stuff & small stuff are the toughest things about Starship.”
“RT @SpaceX: Launch and ascent of Starship's eleventh flight test https://t.co/mbMVb6jebW”
“@TJ_Cooney Wow, 2011 seems like eons ago! With fairing recovery, Falcon is ~80% reusable, but reflight takes several days & requires boats. Starship will be fully reusable with booster reflight possible every few hours & ship reflight every 8 hours. No boats needed.”
“@Erdayastronaut @LevEakins More accurate word is “propellant”, rather than “fuel”. Starship is ~78% liquid oxygen, ~22% fuel. Propellant cost is of primary importance for a fully reusable rocket, so reusable rockets want high thrust, as thrust below T/W of 1 is irrelevant.”
“RT @SpaceX: Liftoff of Starship's eighth flight test https://t.co/Vx8tSbgBD5”
“RT @SpaceX: Starship’s tenth flight test pushed the limits and provided maximum excitement along the way → https://t.co/UIwbeGoo2B https://… http://spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-10”
“RT @SpaceX: Counting down to Starship's eighth flight test. Weather looks favorable at the pad and the 60-minute launch window opens at 5:3…”
“RT @SpaceX: The Starship preparing for our ninth flight test completed a single engine static fire demonstrating an in-space burn https://t…”
“@SciGuySpace Good chance that Starship achieves full stack reusability in 2025, which is the critical breakthrough needed to make life multiplanetary”
“RT @ApoStructura: Starship vs A380 & 737-8 When stacked with the Super Heavy booster Starship is taller than an A380 and a Max-8 on top of…”
“@sundarpichai Thanks :) SpaceX team is incredible. All done without AI so far, even Starship. With AI, I can’t even imagine the possibilities.”
“@Dtrford @austinbarnard45 @AlexSvanArt @ErcXspace @SpceEnthusiast @SpacexVision @TomDixonDesign @SpaceX @spaceXcentric Doesn’t quite illustrate true size difference. Starship payload volume & mass are >1000% that of Shuttle.”
“RT @SpaceX: Starship and Super Heavy move out to continue preflight testing https://t.co/zYN1fkvNIk”
“@Erdayastronaut Making a fully reusable orbital rocket of any design is one of the hardest engineering problems of all time. Much, much harder than going to the Moon, which is why it still hasn’t been solved. I am cautiously optimistic that Starship will achieve full reusability next year.”
“RT @SpaceX: Starship reenters Earth’s atmosphere on Flight 11. Data gathered from this flight will inform future Starship missions that wil…”
“RT @SpaceX: Starship’s Raptor engines ignite during hot-staging separation. Super Heavy is boosting back towards its splashdown site https:…”
“RT @SpaceX: Watch Starship's tenth flight test → https://t.co/UIwbeGoo2B https://t.co/gbQv9akMO9 http://spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-10”
“RT @SpaceX: Watch Starship's tenth flight test → https://t.co/UIwbeGoo2B https://t.co/gbQv9akMO9 https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1yoKMPRjeYYxQ”
“RT @SpaceX: Liftoff of Starship's eighth flight test https://t.co/Vx8tSbgBD5”
“@FutureJurvetson @SpaceX And, if all goes well, SpaceX’s total launch mass to orbit will increase ~50% next year, not including Starship”
“@StarshipGazer @SpaceX We’re getting great use out of Massey’s gun range!”
“@MarioNawfal Falcon and Dragon are the best in the world at what they do. The SpaceX Starship is alien technology. Nothing like it has ever been attempted, as it is capable of lifting the entire pressurized volume of the International Space Station in a single flight and will do several…”
“@engineers_feed @SpaceX @NASA Great work by SpaceX team & very much appreciate faith in Starship by @NASA!”
“@Rawasen_ SpaceX needs to demonstrate more progress with Starship, but that will hopefully happen rapidly”
“RT @DimaZeniuk: Starship is the first planet-colonizer class rocket https://t.co/hlMRTVRRP7”
“RT @SpaceX: This was the first Starship to be static fired on the orbital launch mount, which was modified by engineers and technicians at…”
“@JaneidyEve Yeah, we just finished two more propellant domes. SpaceX team & supporting suppliers are doing amazing work ramping Starship production.”
“RT @johnkrausphotos: Starship, the largest and most powerful rocket in history, stands at Starbase, Texas, ahead of Flight 8 tomorrow https…”
“RT @XFreeze: SpaceX will have the first Moon base and it's much closer than most realize Starship can carry the highest tonnage to space o…”
“@Teslaconomics Starship already reached orbital velocity, which is success for all other rockets. Achieving full reusability will be profound not for reasons of valuation, but because it will enable consciousness to extend permanently beyond Earth.”
“@Neopork85 @SpaceX @MarcusHouseGame We really need better legs for Starship. They’re coming.”
“RT @DimaZeniuk: SpaceX is going to launch Starship 9 in 6 days https://t.co/zFZUICrXw6”
“RT @johnkrausphotos: This Super Heavy booster flies again tomorrow. It is the first booster reuse of the Starship program, and comes after…”
“@PPathole @DELTA_V @spacex360 After several successful launches, land overflight earlier in trajectory passes E-sub-c safety threshold. That said, Starship will also launch from Cape long-term.”
“@skorusARK Starship will add ~3 orders of magnitude to SpaceX mass to orbit and beyond”
“@peterrhague This utter moron also doesn’t understand that Starship is designed to be fully reusable, unlike pointless rockets that are not. In expendable mode, add at least 100 metric tons to the payload capability.”
“RT @teslaownersSV: Man, Starship is a hard, hard, hard project. This is the biggest rocket ever made. It will have a thrust and mass doub…”
“RT @teslaownersSV: “Starship is 2.5 times the thrust of a Saturn V. Saturn V was the largest rocket ever to reach orbit. This is 2.5 times…”
“@SciGuySpace Starship is clearly not causing harm to the local environment, so this is just common sense. You can’t even tell the difference between a before and after launch photo, except that the rocket is no longer on the launch mount!”
“RT @teslaownersSV: “Man, Starship is a hard, hard, hard project. This is the biggest rocket ever made. It will have a thrust and mass dou…”
“RT @SpaceX: Starship joins Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy in launching future @NASA science, planetary, and exploration missions”
“RT @teslaownersSV: Did the starship booster really get caught? https://t.co/o4xAkwtosy”
“RT @MarioNawfal: ELON: WE CAUGHT STARSHIP’S BOOSTER WITHOUT THE HELP OF AI “Not bad for humans. No AI was involved in that whatsoever.…”
“RT @teslaownersSV: “Starship is the key to making life multiplanetary and protecting the light of consciousness.” Elon Musk https://t.co/D…”
