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“@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…”
“@BLKMDL3 @RationalEtienne @Adamklotz_ Once we can predict cash flow reasonably well, Starlink will IPO”
“@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.”
“@DavidSHolz @xenocosmography And how are we supposed to reach Mars if America goes de facto bankrupt?”
“@WholeMarsBlog Exactly”
“@itsALLrisky And that’s just for Earth! Mars has zero human population. We need a lot of people to become a multiplanet civilization.”
“@cnunezimages @SpaceX @SpaceIntellige3 Gateway to Mars”
“@PPathole @SpaceX To extend the light of consciousness”
“@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.”
“@cb_doge I will call and ask if it would not be too much trouble to allow Starlink to compete to provide Internet services to the people of India.”
“@SpaceX https://t.co/sO2s0OcM4L https://www.whereisroadster.com/charts/”
“@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.”
“@SpaceXMR 🤣”
“@WholeMarsBlog The 3 years of random drug testing was just because of one semi-puff during a @JoeRogan podcast!”
“@SpaceXMR Soon it will be real”
“@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.”
“@WholeMarsBlog Markoff is lying”
“@WholeMarsBlog This is the right release to go wide”
“@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.”
“@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!”
“@WholeMarsBlog Nope”
“@WholeMarsBlog 🤣🤣”
“@archillect Dragon hover test”
“@Rainmaker1973 Smooth video courtesy of bolting Starlinks to the deck. They are able to handle high vibration & acoustics.”
“@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.”
“@unusual_whales Not me. I will live and die in America. (Some possibility of dying on Mars, hopefully not on impact)”
“@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.”
“@FischerKing64 Keep books and historical media safe. SpaceX will put copies of knowledge in space an on the Moon and Mars.”
“@WholeMarsBlog This assumes completion of the 10b sales”
“@baierm588 Build 1000+ Starships to transport life to Mars. Basically, (very) modern Noah’s Arks.”
“@SpaceX Krypton thrusters operative, satellites initiating orbit raise every 90 mins”
“@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.”
“@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”
“@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”
“Falcon/Dragon launch to @Space_Station in 9 minutes”
“@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.”
“@MarioNawfal @VlogdoLisboa @BGatesIsaPyscho Glad Starlink could be helpful to the people of Brazil”
“@WholeMarsBlog They are great”
“Hyperloop Alpha at http://t.co/ZRTcT2b8bP and http://t.co/7cucKKprPB http://t.co/LYhuRxUntA http://spacex.com/hyperloop”
“@WholeMarsBlog They are actually much more than point releases, but the team is reserving 11.420 for the big one”
“On Mars, I like to drink my coffee in this mug https://t.co/DN7aIyhhQ3 https://shop.spacex.com/occupy-mars-heat-sensitive-terraforming-mug.html”
“High resolution, color corrected, slow motion rocket landing video https://t.co/UTF3Y4xGU3 https://youtu.be/BhMSzC1crr0”
“@Erdayastronaut @NASASpaceflight Booster 7 now returns to high bay for robustness upgrades & booster 8 moves to pad for testing. Next big test is probably full stack wet dress rehearsal, then 33 engine firing in a few weeks.”
“@Everman Yeah, I heard this so many times. In the future, it will seem bizarre that we used to crash rockets into the ocean instead of reusing them.”
“RT @nicksortor: 🚨 BREAKING: SpaceX will be installing Starlink Minis in ALL Kerr County, TX first responder vehicles TODAY amid catastrophi…”
“@WholeMarsBlog Some easy to fix bugs addressed in 11.4.2 that starts rolling out this weekend. Will address excess conservatism with narrow roads & with lane changes in heavy traffic.”
“@Erdayastronaut Detanking & inspections now. Good progress towards our “Hop in & go to Mars!” goal.”
“@WholeMarsBlog @ValerianIlies People still don’t get it”
“Btw, not saying we *should* nuke Mars -- just layin' out a few options …”
“@InfographicTony @MarcusHouse @FelixSchlang @considercosmos @GregScott_photo @LunarCaveman @SpaceX @SpacesFuture @TJ_Cooney @LabPadre @Erdayastronaut Three center Raptors of Booster will fire at ~50% thrust during hot staging”
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