“🚀 💫 [@SawyerMerritt] Watching the Starship booster be caught by the first tower and the ship be caught by the second tower later this year is going to be beautiful ☀️ )”
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“A permanently crewed lunar science base would be far more impressive than a repeat of what was already done incredibly well by Apollo in 1969 [@Truthful_ast] Blue Origin could likely land on the Moon before SpaceX but this is Blue Moon Mk1, a small lander testbed for Blue Moon Mk2 that would provide no value if man rated. So why bother man rating it to beat China? China doesn’t plan on flags and footprints, they plan on permanent”
“@WholeMarsBlog @BarackObama Wise words from President Obama”
“Payload will be my midnight cherry Tesla Roadster playing Space Oddity. Destination is Mars orbit. Will be in deep space for a billion years or so if it doesn’t blow up on ascent.”
“Getting ready to launch Starship 💫 [@SpaceX] Super Heavy booster moved to the launch pad at Starbase ahead of Starship's tenth flight test”
“Falcon Heavy hold-down firing this morning was good. Generated quite a thunderhead of steam. Launching in a week or so. https://t.co/npaqatbNir”
“@DegreaseNeil That’s why Dragon has shields”
“This is an accurate picture of orbital rocket launches so far this year. 90% Falcon with the massive @SpaceX Starship standing out very clearly. [@ApoStructura] All 258 rockets launched in 2025 so far, chronologically and at scale.”
“@MarioNawfal There was an emergency request from government authorities to activate Starlink all the way to Sevastopol. The obvious intent being to sink most of the Russian fleet at anchor. If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and…”
“Connecting the least connected [@Starlink] Starlink connecting schools in the Philippines to high-speed internet 🛰️📚”
“@WholeMarsBlog My title is Chief Twit right there in the bio. No idea who the CEO is.”
“@SpaceX For the first time ever, there is a rocket capable of establishing permanent bases on the moon and Mars”
“Try Starlink 🇬🇧 [@Telegraph] 🔴 In the UK, Starlink has just started offering high-speed internet for as little as £35 a month - that is cheaper than BT’s equivalent £40 service https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/01/18/elon-musk-has-parked-his-tanks-on-bts-lawn/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_tw_post_his-tanks-on-bts-lawn/”
“@lrocket Exactly. SpaceX was told repeatedly that hiring anyone who was not a permanent resident of the United States would violate international arms trafficking law, which would be a criminal offense. We couldn’t even hire Canadian citizens, despite Canada being part of NORAD! This…”
“Within a few years, @SpaceX direct to cell capability will improve by more than an order of magnitude, due to increased satellite count and improved technology”
“SpaceX Crew Dragon has docked with International @Space_Station https://t.co/CccsItLLvJ”
“SpaceX Falcon rocket just launched https://t.co/BKonw79GBw https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OyKAWXNpQaJb”
“@SpaceX 🇺🇸🇺🇸 American Broomstick 🇺🇸🇺🇸 https://t.co/r2hJvFQosS”
“Starlink direct to your unmodified phone with no new hardware required! [@Starlink] Starlink Direct to Cell will soon provide SMS service across Chile’s varied geography, eliminating dead zones and keeping you connected in case of emergency 🛰️📱”
“Fly me to the moon ... Ok https://t.co/6QT8m5SHwn http://www.spacex.com/news/2017/02/27/spacex-send-privately-crewed-dragon-spacecraft-beyond-moon-next-year”
“@ValentinaForUSA @fema Yeah, it’s not just SpaceX. They won’t let anyone help!”
“Cool [@SawyerMerritt] NEWS: Today, Trump signed an executive order committing the United States to return to the Moon by 2028, build a lunar outpost by 2030 and prepare for the journey to Mars. Everything in the Executive Order: • Return Americans to the Moon by 2028 • Begin building a permanent… https://x.com/i/web/status/2001787324384862401”
“From thence to Mars, And hence the Stars.”
“Starlink is improving fast [@MarioNawfal] STARLINK SPEEDS UP – 50% FASTER, AND V3 HASN’T EVEN LAUNCHED YET Starlink’s turning “high-speed” into an understatement! Speed Stats: • Median speeds up 50% since January • 200+ Mbps downloads, 30+ Mbps uploads • 26 ms latency – faster than most fiber And”
“It is [@SciGuySpace] This seems like a pretty big deal. https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/10/elon-musk-on-data-centers-in-orbit-spacex-will-be-doing-this/”
“Destacking Starship https://t.co/dUWz3uwwmb”
“A fully reusable rocket improves cost per ton to orbit by ~2.5 orders of magnitude”
“@WholeMarsBlog Twitter is not the real world”
“@ChrisO_wiki It is a violation of commercial Starlink terms of service to use the terminal for weapon systems. This applies to all users and is shut down when discovered. There is a separate network called Starshield, which is operated by the US government. This is not under SpaceX control.”
“Hopefully, Starship this year”
“Why Mars?”
“Order at https://t.co/Q1VvqV5G0i! http://Starlink.com”
“❤️ [@Starlink] For those affected by the severe flooding in Indonesia, Starlink is providing free service to new and existing customers through the end of December. We’re also working with the Indonesian government to rapidly deploy terminals and restore connectivity to the hardest-hit areas on… https://x.com/i/web/status/1994474226771005571”
“@WholeMarsBlog >95% of people still have no idea this is here”
“@PPathole @Tesla @SpaceX I could get a job, just not at an Internet company (weren’t many back then)”
“Congrats to @SpaceX team on 48th launch this year! Falcon 9 now holds record for most launches of a single vehicle type in a year.”
“Starship to Mars simulation https://t.co/fkpYvv5pMR https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Oox2w5sMcA&”
“Starlink now in Cape Verde”
“Starship on the moon https://t.co/UGjDG8ofID”
“Yes! [@teslaownersSV] "a new era in space exploration where we're gonna go to the moon. We're gonna have have a base on the moon. We're gonna have send people to Mars. Have and and make life multilanetary. And I think this day heralds a new age of space exploration." Elon Musk”
“We built a factory and launch complex for giant rockets on a sand bar down by the river”
“Starlink view of 2nd stage deorbit burn https://t.co/kbLv95bAK7”
“Congrats SpaceX Falcon team!”
“Starlink is providing Internet connectivity to schools and hospitals in Africa that had nothing or very expensive and bad connectivity before. This will do more to lift people out of poverty than all the NGOs combined. [@SawyerMerritt] NEWS: SpaceX's @Starlink has reached a new milestone in Kenya, recording 19,460 active users as of September 2025, marking the satellite provider’s highest subscriber count since entering the Kenyan market.”
“The goal of @SpaceX is expansion of consciousness to the stars so that we may understand what questions to ask about the answer that is the Universe [@somefoundersalt] Remember SpaceX was publicly clear that its goal was Mars even before the first Falcon 9 even flew There should be even more companies driven by civilization-scale visions”
“Cool. Starlink satellite direct to phone version 2 constellation will be much better. Medium resolution video. [@SawyerMerritt] SpaceX cellular @Starlink review: I Tested Video Chats on T-Mobile's Cellular Starlink, and It Was Pretty Mind-Blowing. "On a remote beach in Northern California, my Pixel 10 connected to satellites 200 miles overhead, allowing me to make video calls on WhatsApp, post tweets,”
“@iliketeslas I continue to oversee both Tesla & SpaceX, but the teams there are so good that often little is needed from me”
“Medium resolution images, music & audio podcasts should work with the current generation Starlink direct-to-phone constellation. Next generation constellation will do medium resolution video. [@MarioNawfal] 🚨GAME CHANGER: APPLE QUIETLY ADDS STARLINK TO IPHONES IN iOS 18.3 Apple just opened iPhone doors to Starlink's satellite network, giving users an alternative to their Globalstar service for off-grid communication. The key difference? No more pointing your phone at the sky -… )”
“Raptor 3 has almost twice the thrust and much higher reliability than Raptor 1, despite costing about four times less! [@SpaceX] Raptor 3 is an unprecedented step forward in rocket engine design, which will help us increase Starship’s efficiency and the amount of mass Starship is able to deliver to space )”
“There is LOT of ice on Mars! Even much of the red-colored parts are actually just dusty glaciers. [@MarioNawfal] 🚨 MARS SHOWS ITS ICE CROWN NASA just dropped the sharpest image yet of the Red Planet’s north pole - yes, that blue-white patch is real water ice. The shot slices Mars in 2: frozen crown on top, rust-red wasteland below. Sci-fi sold us a dead desert. Reality? A planet with”
