“Starship reached orbital velocity! Congratulations @SpaceX team!!”
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“Starship booster recovered from sea Like the ruins of a long dead civilization https://t.co/aoypJT9T26”
“Despite loss of many tiles and a damaged flap, Starship made it all the way to a soft landing in the ocean! Congratulations @SpaceX team on an epic achievement!!”
“Starship is now more than twice as powerful as the Saturn V Moon rocket and, in a year or so, it will be three times as powerful at 10,000 metric tons of thrust. More importantly, it is designed to be fully reusable, burning ~80% liquid oxygen and ~20% liquid methane (very low…”
“Starship static fire successful! [@SpaceX] Full-duration static fire for the first time on Starship V3”
“Starship Super Heavy Booster to the launch pad https://t.co/Mui8whqGrb”
“Starship Super Heavy Booster https://t.co/3065srPugD”
“The @SpaceX Starship launch tomorrow morning will be live-streamed exclusively on 𝕏!”
“True. I think @realDonaldTrump winning makes a big difference in humanity getting to Mars and making life multiplanetary. This might one day save life as we know it.”
“Starship will make life multiplanetary https://t.co/RyRVBp7r1E”
“For those unaware, SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years. The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to… https://t.co/HSuKIz1eVd https://x.com/i/web/status/2020640004628742577”
“Just inspected the Starship launch pad and it is in great condition! No refurbishment needed to the water-cooled steel plate for next launch. Congrats to @Spacex team & contractors for engineering & building such a robust system so rapidly! https://t.co/py5m1uhtEi”
“If all goes well, Starship launches tomorrow [@SpaceX] Starship stacked for flight”
“Successful Starship Super Heavy Booster static fire!”
“If we make life multiplanetary, there may come a day when some plants & animals die out on Earth, but are still alive on Mars”
“Great work by the @SpaceX team [@SpaceX] Splashdown confirmed! Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on an exciting eleventh flight test of Starship!”
“Starship V3 SN1 headed for ground tests. I am highly confident that the V3 design will achieve full reusability. [@SpaceX] The first Starship V3 has left the build site to begin prelaunch testing”
“True [@EvasTeslaSPlaid] Nothing would have happened without the amazing @SpaceX Starship Tream. Cheers 🫶”
“SpaceX is the railroad that will enable millions of opportunities for others on Mars, just like the Union Pacific Railroad did for California”
“Starship will make life as we know it multiplanetary for the first time in Earth’s ~4.5 billion year existence https://t.co/G7lJo3gckz”
“It is the first planet-colonizer class rocket [@teslaownersSV] The scale of the Starship is insane and 🤯🤯🤯”
“Preparing for the last launch of Starship 2 [@SpaceX] Starship moved to the pad at Starbase for preflight testing”
“Even if we fail at creating a Mars colony that can grow without continuous support from Earth, the absurdly ambitious nature of the goal nonetheless results in the creation of alien-level technology that is crushingly better than competitors who merely aim for Earth orbit.”
“Mars is a planet purely of robots (for now) [@SpaceX] Falcon Heavy will launch the Rosalind Franklin rover to Mars in late 2028”
“Starbase, Texas [@SpaceX] Starship moved to the pad at Starbase ahead of the eleventh flight test”
“Starship V3 Super Heavy Rocket https://t.co/NyXbLMG6XQ”
“Starship flight tomorrow evening [@SpaceX] Starship stacked for flight. This is planned to be the final launch from Pad 1 at Starbase in its current configuration”
“Installing Starship booster engines for first orbital flight https://t.co/yhqrNFBclh”
“The Starship factory is stunning [@jawwwn_] SpaceX COO @Gwynne_Shotwell: “I love working for @elonmusk.” “He’s funny— he’s hilarious actually.” “He focuses on things that I would never have thought were important.” “One is— beautiful spaces.” “This is one of the most beautiful factories I have ever seen.” Via @TIME”
“Starship achieved a precise, soft landing in the ocean, paving the way for return to launch site and being caught by the tower arms, like the booster. Full & rapid reusability improves the cost of access to orbit & beyond by >10,000%. It is the fundamental technology…”
“Starship launch attempt now! @SpaceX”
“Starship Super Heavy Booster is already back in its launch mount”
“Starship will build Moonbase Alpha [@DimaZeniuk] SPACEX: Starship ready to take humanity’s first permanent step beyond Earth • Starship is designed to establish a permanent human presence beyond Earth, including lunar and planetary outposts; • Chosen for NASA’s Artemis program, it will land the first astronauts on the Moon”
“Shortly before the next flight, I will do a live technical update on Starship, going over progress to date and engineering/production/launch plans for the future. [@johnkrausphotos] New SpaceX website looks great!Lots of details on upcoming launches, not just the ones a day or two away. Awesome new Cape Canaveral Starship pad render, too. http://SpaceX.com”
“Mini Starship with flame! https://t.co/VGKHyaikTd https://shop.spacex.com/collections/featured-products/products/starship-torch”
“Starship was made using zero AI. Future digital superintelligences would have to admit that it’s pretty good for a bunch of monkeys. [@SpaceX] Super Heavy hot-staging and boostback burn”
“First firing of Starship Raptor flight engine! So proud of great work by @SpaceX team!! https://t.co/S6aT7Jih4S”
“Earth’s gravity is strong enough to make reaching Mars extremely hard, but not impossible [@fermatslibrary] Why Super-Earthlings Might Never Reach the Stars In the rocket equation, the fuel required to reach orbit grows exponentially with gravity. If Earth’s gravity were 15% stronger, space programs would likely be impossible.”
“Yes [@teslaownersSV] “Elon Musk Instead of buying an island or a yacht, he wants to keep putting his chips on the table. He decides he wants to send a rocket to Mars. His friends were like, ‘What are you talking about?’ And Elon says, ‘If we don’t become a spacefaring civilization, human”
“Starship Super Heavy Booster https://t.co/zOXgiq9bJ7”
“Interstage extension for hot gas venting added to enable Starship to turn on its engines while booster engines still firing!”
“SpaceX reprioritized to cyber defense & overcoming signal jamming. Will cause slight delays in Starship & Starlink V2.”
“Today at SpaceX is about practicing Starship engine starts. Ship is held down by massive pins while engines are fired. Two starts completed, about to try a third.”
“World’s most advanced bakery [@SpaceX] Our fully automated bakery in Florida is setup to produce thousands of heat shield tiles per day to outfit the coming fleet of Starship vehicles”
“Voting for Trump is voting for Mars! Unless we stop the slow strangulation by overregulation happening in America, we will never become a multiplanetary civilization.”
“Starship launch & catch tower https://t.co/5mLIQwwu0k”
“This is V2 Starship. V3 hopefully launches end of year. [@SpaceX] Starship moved to the launch site at Starbase for preflight testing”
“Absolutely [@fermatslibrary] SpaceX's Starship has the potential to accelerate astrophysics research by decades. In this week's paper, the authors highlight Starship's substantial payload capacity (+100t) and cost-effective launch model, could allow NASA to deploy next-generation space telescopes much”
“Making life multiplanetary expands the scope & scale of consciousness. It also enables us to backup the biosphere, protecting all life as we know it from a calamity on Earth. Humanity is life’s steward, as no other species can transport life to Mars. We can’t let them down.”
“SpaceX will launch over 90% of all of Earth’s payload mass to orbit this year. China will be ~5% and rest of world, including rest of America, around 5%. When Starship is launching at high rate, SpaceX will probably carry >99% of Earth’s payload mass to orbit. This is… [@esherifftv] The FAA has released a draft environmental assessment to increase Falcon 9 launches at SLC-40 from 50 to 120 and to build a new landing zone at SLC-40.”
