“@josh_bickett @ajtourville @Erdayastronaut @SpaceX Yeah. By default, engine with least lever arm would shut down if all 3 are good.”
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“@nextspaceflight Stage Zero, which is everything needed to launch & catch the rocket, is at least as hard as the booster or ship”
“@TLPN_Official @SpaceX Depending on progress with Booster 4, we might try a 9 engine firing on Booster 3”
“@NASAEarthMars That is quite an interesting story. We sent what appeared to be identical emails to all, but each was actually coded with either one or two spaces between sentences, forming a binary signature that identified the leaker.”
“@thejackbeyer @NASASpaceflight @BocaChicaGal @NicAnsuini Our focus is on reliability upgrades for flight on Booster 7 and completing Booster 9, which has many design changes, especially for full engine RUD isolation.”
“@tunguz He is just plain wrong. Almost the entire founding team of @SpaceX was over 30. Over half of the founding team of Tesla was too.”
“@WholeMarsBlog Remarkable how few people realize this capability exists. Many think it is 5 years away! With public beta rollout in coming weeks, awareness should improve dramatically.”
“@WholeMarsBlog As mentioned previously, this is a major release, so we need to be cautious. Goes out to ~1000 Beta participants later today.”
“@WholeMarsBlog They stand so far to the left that I’m surprised they can even see the right!”
“RT @cb_doge: BREAKING: MrBeast just posted a new video touring SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket manufacturing facility in Texas. https://t.…”
“RT @teslaownersSV: The scale of the Starship is insane and 🤯🤯🤯 https://t.co/6k9Ky0ZPMZ”
“@thesheetztweetz @BryceSpaceTech @SpaceX @Arianespace @ArianeGroup @roscosmos @northropgrumman @ulalaunch @torybruno @isro @RocketLab Actually, 41 tons for SpaceX in Q3 & aiming for 80 tons in Q4. That said, China launch mass to orbit is extremely impressive.”
“RT @DimaZeniuk: Elon Musk in the United States: • Tesla’s HQ and factories • SpaceX’s facilities and launch sites • Starlink’s operations…”
“@WholeMarsBlog We are waiting for regulatory approval”
“@Thomas_Sergeant @beffjezos My “net worth” will just track SpaceX+Tesla market cap, so will be whatever that is as a percentage of GDP”
“@MarcusHouse The next stage of the Starship program should be called The Two Towers”
“@MuskUniversity Based on the Falcon launch plan for next year, SpaceX will deliver ~90% of all Earth payload to orbit. Starship will take that to >99% in future years. These magnitudes are madness to consider, but necessary to make consciousness multiplanetary.”
“@WholeMarsBlog @jimfarley98 @mrlevine FSD Beta 9.2 is actually not great imo, but Autopilot/AI team is rallying to improve as fast as possible. We’re trying to have a single stack for both highway & city streets, but it requires massive NN retraining.”
“@Jaydev_Chauhan_ Yeah, SpaceX team is cranking hard!”
“@PPathole @nextspaceflight @NASASpaceflight @BocaChicaGal @SpaceX Actually, so-called “secondary” structure is the hard part – so many pipes & wires. Tall stuff & small stuff are the toughest things about Starship.”
“@Dragonboy155 😂”
“@arstechnica SpaceX Crew Dragon ships to the Cape in about 3 months”
“@WholeMarsBlog Cocaine does not meet that test”
“@aaronjcash @WholeMarsBlog @brandonee916 @vincent13031925 @SpaceX 🤣”
“@WholeMarsBlog @NASASpaceflight @BBCAmos There is a reason no fully reusable orbital rocket has been built – it’s an insanely hard problem. Moreover, it must be rapidly & completely reusable (like an airplane). This is the only way to make life multiplanetary. Efficiencies of scale is why Starship is so large.”
“@WholeMarsBlog Berlin will use 4680 cell with structural battery pack & front & rear single piece castings. Also, a new paint system. Lot of new technology will happen in Berlin, which means significant production risk. Fremont & Shanghai will transition in ~2 years when new tech is proven.”
“@WholeMarsBlog You might be right about that”
“@WholeMarsBlog Well said”
“@CSI_Starbase Agreed, we recently made this change & many others. An intense effort is underway to achieve robust engine containment in case of RUD to protect booster, other engines & launch ring.”
“@Adamklotz_ @BryceSpaceTech Starlink missions will move to Starship”
“RT @SpaceX: Launch and ascent of Starship's eleventh flight test https://t.co/mbMVb6jebW”
“@TJ_Cooney Wow, 2011 seems like eons ago! With fairing recovery, Falcon is ~80% reusable, but reflight takes several days & requires boats. Starship will be fully reusable with booster reflight possible every few hours & ship reflight every 8 hours. No boats needed.”
“@thesheetztweetz Full & rapid reusability is the holy grail of orbital rocketry”
“@johnkrausphotos @Patreon @SuperclusterHQ @SpaceX Maybe this should be the flag of Mars”
“RT @SpaceX: Falcon 9 and Dragon vertical at pad 39A in Florida. Targeting Tuesday, June 10 for launch of Ax-4 → https://t.co/LU1wyD7X9s htt… http://spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=ax-4”
“RT @JonErlichman: Age of these businesses: Tesla: 22 years SpaceX: 23 years Google: 27 years Netflix: 28 years Amazon: 31 years Nvidia: 32…”
“@Erdayastronaut @LevEakins More accurate word is “propellant”, rather than “fuel”. Starship is ~78% liquid oxygen, ~22% fuel. Propellant cost is of primary importance for a fully reusable rocket, so reusable rockets want high thrust, as thrust below T/W of 1 is irrelevant.”
“@WholeMarsBlog FSD/AI team is doing great work. Will get superhuman good in upcoming releases. Note, we will slow down upload rate of releases going forward. First from QA fleet to employee cars for a day, then slowly releasing at ~1000 cars/hr to external beta on Friday aft.”
“@blueskykites @Tesla @SpaceX @mayemusk @WholeMarsBlog @28delayslater @JohnnaCrider1 @Kristennetten @SirineAti @GailAlfarATX @DimaZeniuk @bevedoni @RationalEtienne @ashleevance @adamhoov @klwtts @RenataKonkoly For a couple of months, but, yeah, that looks like the place. Does Mark still live there?”
“Thoughtful Op-ed in Space News much appreciated https://t.co/CJq5g3NIEK http://spacenews.com/op-ed-despite-spacex-setback-future-of-private-space-exploration-is-bright/”
“RT @DimaZeniuk: “One day, we will indeed occupy Mars!” — Elon Musk https://t.co/tAFRvGwjo2”
“@WholeMarsBlog Real-world validation & billions of miles of real-world training are what will make FSD superhuman”
“@WholeMarsBlog @NASASpaceflight @BBCAmos Higher structural margins overall are needed for reuse, plus: Booster - Grid fins for aero control - Boostback & landing propellant tanks - Protecting engines from entry loads Ship - Body flaps for aero control - Deorbit & landing propellant tanks - Heat shield”
“RT @SpaceX: Liftoff of Starship's eighth flight test https://t.co/Vx8tSbgBD5”
“@archillect Sorry, probably going to be a lot of rocket pics from @archillect 🤣🤣”
“@oneunderscore__ @ParkerMolloy @2sunsky @ashleyfeinberg You’re welcome to come by SpaceX, but please stop assuming I’m against all journalists. This is not true. Something needs to be done to improve public trust in media.”
“@WholeMarsBlog The Tesla AI predictions are swiftly becoming superhuman – its guesses for what it can’t see well feel like ESP. It has a vastly larger training set than any human & thinks only about driving.”
“@TeslaHype @GailAlfarATX Starship is intended to carry a lot of people on tens of thousands of flights, so needs to be extremely reliable over time. It will be.”
“@cnunezimages @SpaceX @SpaceIntellige3 💯”
“@rookisaacman Soon to the Moon and then Mars!”
