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“@ID_AA_Carmack But we need a heat shield that can handle Mars atmospheric entry conditions with a heavy payload, so the ballistic coefficient will necessarily be high. Steel is unfortunately hopeless. No one has ever made a truly reusable orbital heat shield, so this is an extremely tough”
“@BRO_SPI_Airport @SpacePadreIsle @SpaceX Sounds good, we will send one over”
“Cause of hard rocket landing confirmed as due to slower than expected throttle valve response. Next attempt in 2 months.”
“@Model3Owners @TrungTPhan It took an utterly insane amount of work to move the SpaceX & Tesla success probabilities above ~zero”
“@WholeMarsBlog Q2 for sure”
“@SciGuySpace Yes, detailed review of the first orbital Starship, explaining the pros & cons of each design decision”
“@abhiyogi Slight chance of Starship flight to Mars crewed by Optimus in Nov/Dec next year. A lot needs to go right for that. More likely, first flight without humans in ~3.5 years, next flight ~5.5 years with humans. Mars city self-sustaining in 20 to 30 years.”
“@Erdayastronaut @SpaceX All correct. Parachutes were originally the backup landing system, with SuperDraco thrusters as primary. Difficulty of proving thruster landing safety *and* architecture being suboptimal for moon/Mars caused us to change focus to parachutes.”
“@TeslaGong @inspiration4x Yeah, a little oven for heating food & Starlink wifi”
“RT @SpaceX: Liftoff! https://t.co/aVZ06WjiuP”
“@WholeMarsBlog @teslaownersSV Saturday”
“RT @SpaceX: Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship https://t.co/dvviypifu5”
“RT @SpaceX: TERAFAB: the next step to becoming a galactic civilization Together with @Tesla & @xAI, we're building the largest chip manufa…”
“RT @SpaceX: Falcon 9 lifts off from pad 40 in Florida, delivering 23 @Starlink satellites to the constellation ahead of completing our firs…”
“RT @SpaceX: Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship https://t.co/dWosHWKoPm”
“@WholeMarsBlog 🤣”
“RT @WholeMarsBlog: *SBF steals money from people and donates it to Democrats* Democrats: Thank you Mr. Billionaire! *Silicon Valley start…”
“RT @NASA: LIVE: #Crew9 and their @SpaceX Dragon spacecraft are departing the @Space_Station and starting their journey back to Earth. Undoc…”
“@BBCWorld Moreover, based on extensive cave video review & discussion with several divers who know journey, SpaceX engineering is absolutely certain that mini-sub can do entire journey & demonstrate at any time.”
“@wholemars I should have said “insanely biased””
“@WholeMarsBlog Neuralink plus Optimus has potential for incredible artificial limbs”
“RT @SpaceX: Crew-10, SpaceX, and @NASA completed a full rehearsal of launch day activities https://t.co/jaHNri4LDE”
“RT @SpaceX: Falcon 9 launches 28 @Starlink satellites from California https://t.co/pibZew2bgw”
“@SpacexVision An orbital propellant depot optimized for cryogenic storage probably makes sense long-term”
“@WholeMarsBlog @moskov Moskovitz actually said that?”
“RT @SpaceX: Falcon 9 delivers 28 @Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida https://t.co/YSGFq2NHKS”
“@Marslamute Due to opposition by Senators Manchin and Sinema, it did not. However, Manchin retires this year and Sinema has been ousted from the Democratic Party, so neither will be there to stop this next year.”
“RT @SpaceX: Falcon 9 lifts off from pad 4E in California and delivers 22 @Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit https://t.co/DPfylW1CPT”
“@WholeMarsBlog That is an actual choice I face every day 😂”
“@WholeMarsBlog With @Neuralink interfacing directly to the visual cortex, even those who are completely blind will be able to see again. Computer vision will be limited at first, like early computer graphics, but ultimately will exceed the best human eyes.”
“@occupymars42069 @paraga Interesting”
“@altcap @SpaceX @xai By a factor of a billion”
“@SpaceXMR Amazing”
“@BillyM2k Starlink will be available on most aircraft soon, depending on whether the airline orders it”
“@MarioNawfal Starlink still works”
“@SpaceX Wow”
“@SawyerMerritt @BillyM2k @WholeMarsBlog Maybe should be default off? Subscriber is a way better name.”
“@AmanGotchu @SpaceX @xai Welcome!”
“Most telling is that the SpaceX Propulsion CTO switched from driving a Porsche 911 Turbo S to a Model X”
“@WallStreetSilv That was at the SpaceX Texas rocket test site about 4 years ago. We’ve been there since 2002.”
“@tetsuoai Starlink V3 launches with Starship will carry 25 to 50 times more bandwidth than a Falcon flight with V2, depending on how you count it. Starship will also launch 100+ times more per year than Falcon (mostly AI sats). Probably ~20k comms satellites per year at ~2 tons/sat. High”
“@spacecoast_stve @NASASpaceflight Falcon was 25% of successful orbital launches in 2020, but maybe a majority of payload to orbit. Anyone done the math?”
“@Erdayastronaut Making a fully reusable orbital rocket of any design is one of the hardest engineering problems of all time. Much, much harder than going to the Moon, which is why it still hasn’t been solved. I am cautiously optimistic that Starship will achieve full reusability next year.”
“@Erdayastronaut @flcnhvy @PelleBrannvall @Neopork85 @Caspar_Stanley @ErcXspace @MarcusHouseGame @FelixSchlang @C_Bass3d @nickhenning3d @SpaceX @BocaChicaGal SpaceX/Tesla metallurgy & new materials team is next-level”
“@EMTSLA @WholeMarsBlog Agreed”
“@SpaceXFan97 Speed will double to ~300Mb/s & latency will drop to ~20ms later this year”
“RT @cb_doge: The first Starship to Mars will be named "Heart of Gold" https://t.co/Cw0wbSUxbT”
“RT @SpaceX: With each launch of the @Starlink V2 Mini satellites, ~2.7 Tbps of capacity is added to the constellation, enabling Starlink to…”
“RT @SpaceX: Starship reenters Earth’s atmosphere on Flight 11. Data gathered from this flight will inform future Starship missions that wil…”
“@Teslarati .@NASA support for reusability with high reliability, the critical breakthrough for orbital rockets, has made a big difference”
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