“@SpaceX Telemetry indicates soft touchdown on the water, so fairing might still be reusable”
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“@lrocket The transition to argon was tricky, but necessary, as krypton is too rare”
“Rocket soft landed in the ocean within 10m of target & nicely vertical! High probability of good droneship landing in non-stormy weather.”
“@SpaceXMR Such a beautiful day to launch”
“Falcon 9 experienced a problem shortly before first stage shutdown. Will provide more info as soon as we review the data.”
“Fourth rocket arrives in the hangar. Aiming for first reflight in Sept/Oct. https://t.co/TqW8d6Cc3U”
“First draft animation of the Falcon Heavy three core launch. FH is twice the thrust of the next… https://t.co/vgZxF6ugoh https://www.instagram.com/p/BXXiVWFgphb/”
“@matthewdmarsden Yeah, legal immigration is totally broken. Should be smooth and easy.”
“Falcon 9 rocket now vertical at Cape Canaveral on launch complex 39-A. This is the same launch… https://t.co/wY6dWRcer3 https://www.instagram.com/p/BQWBz9zgOTP/”
“RT @SpaceX: Liftoff of Starship! https://t.co/d6d2hHgMa0”
“@SpaceX Standing down for today to inspect rocket. Hopefully launching tomorrow.”
“@PPathole @SpaceX Absolutely! Staggeringly insane amount of work between now and then.”
“With the version 3 Starlink satellites, which start launching on Starship in 6 to 9 months, we should be able to get latency below 20ms. The new, much larger satellites will be at ~350km instead of ~550km altitude, which cuts latency due to speed of light down to ~5ms. Also,”
“@JessePeltan For anything to do with engineering and science for sure, but Imperial has a certain romantic charm for civilian use. I set a more intuitive variant of metric for Starship: tons for force and mass, bar for pressure. It’s easier to do mental math, eg thrust to mass ratio, than”
“@markusdd5 Given that several companies make advanced chips, but no companies have ever made fully reusable rockets or achieved SpaceX scale, I think Starship is harder, but we shall see. Terafab will technically be two fabs, each making only one chip design. This greatly simplifies”
“@WholeMarsBlog The Washington Post’s current slogan is “Democracy Dies in Darkness”. Catchy – for sure – but then what’s up with the paywall for news!?”
“@bluemoondance74 @NASASpaceflight @SpaceX “Comes in discreet packaging””
“@WholeMarsBlog Beta 10 will be next-level”
“Here is the latest SpaceX travel ad for the flight around the moon & into deep space. Maybe needs a few edits ... https://t.co/mA8ZgutrbE https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DNkKCFaqib8”
“Still working on the Falcon fireball investigation. Turning out to be the most difficult and complex failure we have ever had in 14 years.”
“@aaronburnett “Outsourcing” is impossible when the rest of industry will do less than 10% or SpaceX’s mass to orbit”
“@NASAGoddard @SpaceX .@SpaceX team would be so honored to fly this for @NASA!”
“Falcon Heavy is this times three. One way or another, launch is guaranteed to be exciting ... https://t.co/FPUNALj0Hd https://x.com/spacex/status/867568781928701954”
“@WholeMarsBlog No, it’s dual, high performance terminals, which are important for maintaining the connection in choppy seas & heavy storms. Still obv premium pricing, but way cheaper & faster than alternatives. SpaceX was paying $150k/month for a much worse connection to our ships!”
“@ChrisG_NSF We are proceeding very carefully. If there is a RUD on the pad, Starship progress will be set back by ~6 months.”
“This time, the vacuum tunnel will be a bit longer & SpaceX will provide some advance funding for student teams with most promising designs. Bonus award for all race pods that exceed half the speed of sound!”
“@ashleevance Hardly anyone knows that there was a massive effort to block SpaceX from providing astronaut transport for NASA”
“Next rocket landing on drone ship in 2 to 3 weeks w way more hydraulic fluid. At least it shd explode for a diff reason.”
“@PPathole @SpaceX Moving to 33 engines on next booster”
“@DimaZeniuk @klwtts @TeslaClubNorway @WholeMarsBlog @SawyerMerritt @1stMarsColonist @daelmor @Kristennetten @28delayslater @Inelonwetrust__ @billhuang688 @EvaFoxU @GailAlfarATX As goes Norway, so goes the world. That said, still a long way to go to replace the fleet of combustion vehicles on the road.”
“@marshallk @Esqueer_ Calling for violence will result in suspension”
“@Teslarati @Tesla @WholeMarsBlog @JohnnaCrider1 🤔”
“@Erdayastronaut @SpaceX Merlin is so simple compared to Raptor!”
“@thesheetztweetz @SpaceX @USCG @PortCanaveral Glad we could help”
“@WholeMarsBlog True”
“RT @EricLDaugh: 🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk's Starlink just made the service FREE to Jamaica and the Bahamas as Category 5 Hurricane Melissa make…”
“@jonastsla @jamesdouma @heydave7 @karpathy @WholeMarsBlog Our video clips are usually shorter than 30 seconds, but the overall point made by James is accurate. Tesla is probably labeling more images per week than any other project ever done and our rate of labeling is increasing rapidly.”
“@WholeMarsBlog https://t.co/ftFbmwIJz6”
“RT @SpaceX: Super Heavy on the launch pad at Starbase ahead of Starship's eighth flight test https://t.co/MdiIQMy5EF”
“@thesheetztweetz SpaceX has sued to be *allowed* to compete, BO is suing to stop competition”
“RT @SpaceX: Splashdown confirmed! Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on an exciting eleventh flight test of Starship! https://t.co/l… https://x.com/yz”
“@farzyness Walter spent a lot of time with me in meetings, but much less time walking the factory floor. Tesla and SpaceX factories have a great vibe. We encourage playing music and having some fun. Very important for people to look forward to coming to work! We pay more than the UAW…”
“@WholeMarsBlog You mean 11.4.7? That should be going to wide release within a week. Version 12, which an almost total rewrite (~99% AI) is being tested by our QA drivers. Too much new code to go to the public yet, but it is mind-blowing imo.”
“@SirineAti @mn_google Starship will be ready to fly next month. I was in the high bay & mega bay late last night reviewing progress.”
“@BLKMDL3 @Apple @SpaceX We’ve had some promising conversations with Apple about Starlink connectivity. iPhone team is obv super smart. For sure, closing link from space to phone will work best if phone software & hardware adapt to space-based signals vs Starlink purely emulating cell tower.”
“@Erdayastronaut @SpaceX It was foolish of us not to start 3 engines & immediately shut down 1, as 2 are needed to land”
“@FAANews @SpaceX What are the 63 items?”
“@WholeMarsBlog Thanks :)”
“@LloydOstertagg @SpaceX Thanks Lloyd!”
“@WholeMarsBlog Car just drove me around Austin all day with no interventions required, despite ACL festival crowds! In the fairly near future, people will wonder why there was ever skepticism about self-driving.”
