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Mar 9, 2022

@PPathole @SpaceX Optimized, fully-reusable Starship is ~150t to same reference orbit as Saturn V. In expendable mode, Starship payload would be 250t to 300t.

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Aug 3, 2024

@SpaceX Important to note that the induced mass (mass required by a given engine design that is not the engine itself) of Raptor 3, while far better than Raptor 2, still has a lot of room for improvement. Thrust will exceed 300 tons with Raptor 3.x (thrust/mass>200), enabling 10,000…

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Feb 9, 2021

@BLKMDL3 @RationalEtienne @Adamklotz_ Once we can predict cash flow reasonably well, Starlink will IPO

10.3K likes1.1K RT661 replies
Jul 10, 2021

@Erdayastronaut We are breaking ground soon on a second Raptor factory at SpaceX Texas test site. This will focus on volume production of Raptor 2, while California factory will make Raptor Vacuum & new, experimental designs.

11.2K likes725 RT450 replies
Jul 1, 2025

@DavidSHolz @xenocosmography And how are we supposed to reach Mars if America goes de facto bankrupt?

3.8K likes288 RT2.1K replies
Jul 27, 2021

@itsALLrisky And that’s just for Earth! Mars has zero human population. We need a lot of people to become a multiplanet civilization.

10.0K likes760 RT1.5K replies
Oct 28, 2021

@cnunezimages @SpaceX @SpaceIntellige3 Gateway to Mars

10.7K likes576 RT1.1K replies
Mar 19, 2024

@WholeMarsBlog Three significant improvements to FSD will roll out roughly every two weeks. Should be really shining bright by late April or early May.

5.2K likes775 RT435 replies
Aug 23, 2021

@PPathole @SpaceX To extend the light of consciousness

11.2K likes552 RT614 replies
May 13, 2023

@NASASpaceflight @SpaceX Yeah. To be frank, we did not expect the engine to survive a full duration run at that pressure. It is uncharted territory.

6.2K likes264 RT206 replies
Feb 9, 2023

@CatherinScience I must admit to being congenitally optimistic (SpaceX & Tesla wouldn’t exist otherwise), but I think 5 years is possible and 10 years is highly likely

8.5K likes604 RT968 replies
Feb 6, 2019

@SpaceX https://t.co/sO2s0OcM4L https://www.whereisroadster.com/charts/

10.6K likes996 RT299 replies
Jan 17, 2025

@Truthful_ast Seems like I should explain what the gameplan is for getting to Mars in more detail. Any individual launch is not very important. What matters is the expected date when Mars becomes a self-sustaining civilization.

3.0K likes248 RT430 replies
Jun 27, 2019

@cleantechnica 2.1 sec 0-60 mph is base model before adding rocket thruster option

11.0K likes703 RT407 replies
May 31, 2025

@WholeMarsBlog The 3 years of random drug testing was just because of one semi-puff during a @JoeRogan podcast!

10.4K likes611 RT501 replies
Apr 14, 2021

@SpaceXMR Soon it will be real

11.9K likes348 RT292 replies
Mar 30, 2025

@visegrad24 Space is hard. Took @SpaceX 4 tries to reach orbit. They can probably do it in fewer. But then it gets vastly harder to achieve truly useful reusability. Only SpaceX has ever done that.

9.8K likes595 RT320 replies
May 26, 2023

@WholeMarsBlog This is the right release to go wide

6.1K likes438 RT556 replies
Mar 21, 2022

@thesheetztweetz @QuiltyAnalytics First Starship orbital flight will be with Raptor 2 engines, as they are much more capable & reliable. 230 ton or ~500k lb thrust at sea level. We’ll have 39 flightworthy engines built by next month, then another month to integrate, so hopefully May for orbital flight test.

10.3K likes1.0K RT459 replies
Sep 20, 2021

@AustinTeslaClub To be precise, completely & immediately reusable orbital rockets are the fundamental breakthrough needed to make life multiplanetary

10.4K likes549 RT1.3K replies
May 27, 2022

@BLKMDL3 @S3XYstarship @IWill_Travel @AOC Yes, but this is actually a good thing. It has been raining money on fools for too long. Some bankruptcies need to happen. Also, all the Covid stay-at-home stuff has tricked people into thinking that you don’t actually need to work hard. Rude awakening inbound!

8.9K likes1.5K RT824 replies
Feb 1, 2022

@archillect Dragon hover test

11.4K likes394 RT552 replies
Apr 8, 2022

@Rainmaker1973 Smooth video courtesy of bolting Starlinks to the deck. They are able to handle high vibration & acoustics.

11.2K likes525 RT420 replies
Jul 19, 2021

@WholeMarsBlog You don’t even need to touch the shifter in new S. Auto detect direction will come as an optional setting to all cars with FSD.

11.1K likes502 RT574 replies
Apr 8, 2018

Upgraded SpaceX/Tesla Hyperloop pod speed test soon. Will try to reach half speed of sound (and brake) within ~1.2km.

10.8K likes870 RT191 replies
Jun 4, 2020

@SciGuySpace So many war stories over 18 eventful years! But Starship can make life multiplanetary, which is what really matters for safeguarding the light of consciousness & life as we know it. 100X improvement over Falcon/Dragon.

10.9K likes687 RT361 replies
Apr 30, 2024

@unusual_whales Not me. I will live and die in America. (Some possibility of dying on Mars, hopefully not on impact)

9.5K likes604 RT521 replies
Apr 28, 2021

@WR4NYGov @garyblack00 @Tesla @WholeMarsBlog 🤣🤣 exactly

11.9K likes254 RT216 replies
Jul 11, 2021

@vincent13031925 Final decision made earlier this week on booster engine count. Will be 33 at ~230 (half million lbs) sea-level thrust. All engines on booster are same, apart from deleting gimbal & thrust vector actuators for outer 20.

10.9K likes597 RT487 replies
Apr 12, 2026

@FischerKing64 Keep books and historical media safe. SpaceX will put copies of knowledge in space an on the Moon and Mars.

9.3K likes771 RT685 replies
Dec 22, 2021

@WholeMarsBlog This assumes completion of the 10b sales

11.2K likes376 RT665 replies
Jun 5, 2022

@baierm588 Build 1000+ Starships to transport life to Mars. Basically, (very) modern Noah’s Arks.

9.5K likes748 RT1.5K replies
May 25, 2019

@SpaceX Krypton thrusters operative, satellites initiating orbit raise every 90 mins

11.3K likes511 RT244 replies
Nov 5, 2023

@ggreenwald Despite greatly helping Ukraine via Starlink, I was viciously attacked for stating the obvious a year ago. The reason I did so was in hopes of avoiding the sacrifice of a generation of men to the trenches for nothing.

8.2K likes1.1K RT628 replies
Nov 12, 2022

@WholeMarsBlog Given all that is in V11, it will take a few weeks to expand the beta, then another few weeks to go wide release to US & Canada

10.3K likes670 RT853 replies
Dec 30, 2020

@ErcXspace We’re going to try to catch the Super Heavy Booster with the launch tower arm, using the grid fins to take the load

10.0K likes830 RT846 replies
Dec 5, 2018

Falcon/Dragon launch to @Space_Station in 9 minutes

10.4K likes874 RT291 replies
Jan 7, 2021

@engineers_feed Indirectly, an electric rocket is possible by using electricity to convert CO2+H2O —> CH4+O2. This will be needed on Mars even for early missions & Earth too over time.

11.0K likes573 RT300 replies
Dec 27, 2023

@AJamesMcCarthy @WholeMarsBlog Correct. Truly shameful of the media to dredge up an injury from two years ago due to a simple industrial Kuka robot arm (found in all factories) and imply that it is due to Optimus now.

8.1K likes925 RT663 replies
May 7, 2024

@MarioNawfal @VlogdoLisboa @BGatesIsaPyscho Glad Starlink could be helpful to the people of Brazil

9.0K likes885 RT514 replies
Aug 12, 2013

Hyperloop Alpha at http://t.co/ZRTcT2b8bP and http://t.co/7cucKKprPB http://t.co/LYhuRxUntA http://spacex.com/hyperloop

2.2K likes4.8K RT609 replies
Jun 21, 2023

@WholeMarsBlog They are actually much more than point releases, but the team is reserving 11.420 for the big one

6.2K likes440 RT394 replies
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