“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!!”
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“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…”
“May Starship serve as a beacon of hope for the future”
“SpaceX just achieved peak download speed of 17Mb/s from satellite direct to unmodified Samsung Android phone https://t.co/JqPHmkriv0”
“Emerging from Dragon for spacewalk https://t.co/OfV8uB3ycd”
“Successful ocean landing of Starship! We will do one more ocean landing of the ship. If that goes well, then SpaceX will attempt to catch the ship with the tower.”
“This is the first time humans have been in orbit around the poles of Earth! [@SpaceX] First views of Earth's polar regions from Dragon”
“Many remote schools and hospitals depend on SpaceX’s Starlink! SpaceX will provide Internet service to users in Brazil for free until this matter is resolved, as we cannot receive payment, but don’t want to cut anyone off.”
“Dragon docks with @Space_Station. Strange to think that they’re both traveling at ~25 times speed of sound!”
“Although Boeing got $4.2 billion to develop an astronaut capsule and SpaceX only got $2.6 billion, SpaceX finished 4 years sooner. Note, the crew capsule design of Dragon 2 has almost nothing in common with Dragon 1. Too many non-technical managers at Boeing.”
“Oh well [@MarioNawfal] 🚨🇨🇦ONTARIO CANCELS $100M STARLINK DEAL AS TRUMP’S 25% TARIFFS LOOM Premier Doug Ford announced Ontario is scrapping its $100 million contract with Starlink ahead of Trump’s incoming tariffs on US goods. Ford’s government is also banning other American companies from provincial… )”
“The astronauts were only supposed to be up there for 8 days and now have been there for 8 months. SpaceX could have sent up another Dragon and brought them home 6 months ago, but the Biden White House (not NASA) refused to allow it. President Trump asked to bring them back as… [@amuse] NASA: Turns out Elon Musk was telling the truth. Biden refused to let the stranded astronauts to come home last year for political reasons. )”
“@Hyperloop @SpaceX Congratulations to all teams in the student @Hyperloop competition! To make high-speed pods that can operate in vacuum is very difficult. Was great to meet everyone!”
“Cryogenic propellant load of Starship is underway, liftoff in T minus 1 hour”
“Just returned from Cave 3. Mini-sub is ready if needed. It is made of rocket parts & named Wild Boar after kids’ soccer team. Leaving here in case it may be useful in the future. Thailand is so beautiful. https://t.co/EHNh8ydaTT”
“I do drift off into thinking about Mars at times [@cb_doge] "But then I started thinking about Mars"”
“Starship preparing for launch 🚀 https://t.co/M1pR8rsmYt”
“Starlink now constitutes roughly 2/3 of all active Earth satellites”
“34th flight of this booster https://t.co/sM4lQFTGA6”
“Preparing Starship 7 for flight”
“Starlink is particularly great for remote locations. It works whether you’re at the top of a mountain in the Arctic or in a crater in Madagascar!”
“Just leaving the engine bay of Starship https://t.co/JTnFfNaymh”
“Crazy [@amuse] OH CANADA: British Columbia Premier David Eby said he was removing Tesla from its EV rebate program because of Elon Musk in violation of the Canadian Human Rights Act. Perhaps Elon should ban Canada from SpaceX and Starlink in retaliation.”
“SpaceX created the first fully reusable rocket stage and, much more importantly, made the reuse economically viable. Making life multiplanetary is fundamentally a cost per ton to Mars problem. It currently costs about a billion dollars per ton of useful payload to the surface…”
“Thousands of upgrades to Starship & launchpad/Mechazilla”
“New water deluge system to protect against the immense heat & force of Starship launch https://t.co/JMnBIH8UTM”
“Nice of him to say [@ElonClipsX] JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon: Elon is our Einstein. It's rational he checks our government efficiency. “You’ve got to look at Elon, at SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink – the guy is our Einstein. I'd like to be helpful to him and his companies as much as we can. I think it is completely… )”
“A number of false news reports claim that SpaceX is selling Starlink terminals to Russia. This is categorically false. To the best of our knowledge, no Starlinks have been sold directly or indirectly to Russia.”
“Congrats @SpaceX Falcon team on 50 successful missions already this year! Highest flight rate of any rocket ever.”
“Tomorrow, I will tell the story of how SpaceX was forced by the government to kidnap seals, put earphones on them and play sonic boom sounds to see if they seemed upset”
“I’ve had a top secret clearance for many years and have clearances that themselves are classified. That said, FAR too much information is made “classified”. If something is easily found online or patently obvious, it should NOT be classified. This impedes effective… [@TONYxTWO] This moment from the USAID House Hearing is 🔥🔥🔥!!! “@elonmusk does have a security clearance, he has a top secret security clearance, by God he makes the rockets for NASA! But the suggestion that he somehow can’t be trusted to dig in to how we’re spending our money is nothing… )”
“Much appreciated, Walter. The onus is meaningfully different if I refused to act upon a request from Ukraine vs. made a deliberate change to Starlink to thwart Ukraine. At no point did I or anyone at SpaceX promise coverage over Crimea. Moreover, our terms of service clearly…”
“Starlink provides Internet connectivity in the air that is often better than being on the ground!”
“SpaceX HQ will now officially be in the city of Starbase, Texas!”
“Early days of SpaceX https://t.co/y6TsAqYcvt”
“@StationCDRKelly You’re smart enough not to swallow media & other propaganda bs. Starlink is the communication backbone of Ukraine, especially at the front lines, where almost all other Internet connectivity has been destroyed. But we will not enable escalation of conflict that may lead to WW3.”
“South Africa has now passed 142 laws forcing discrimination against anyone who is not black! Even though I was born in South Africa, the government will not grant @Starlink a license to operate simply because I am not black. This is a shameful disgrace to the legacy of the [@ConCaracal] FULL DOCUMENTARY: Is Donald Trump right about South Africa? Topics: 142+ Race laws, the Expropriation Act, "Kill the Boer", farm murders, and more. Support @AfriForum in our fight to get the truth about the South African government out: https://sluit-aan.afriforum.co.za/en?campaign=RoepToepCMO&leadSource=600060509”
“Excited to announce that @SpaceX @Starlink has achieved breakeven cash flow! Excellent work by a great team. Starlink is also now a majority of all active satellites and will have launched a a majority of all satellites cumulatively from Earth by next year.”
“The preservation of life and consciousness by being on multiple planets and the expansion of consciousness to the stars are the goals of @SpaceX”
“That’s how easy it is to turn on Starlink! Works anywhere 5 minutes after you take it out of the box.”
“8 minutes to liftoff of Starship! https://t.co/Ngu7VnFsh9 https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1RDGlydZAeOJL”
“This is a real video of a past @SpaceX Starship water landing. Trying again tomorrow. We need to perfect ship reentry at extreme temperatures before attempting to catch the ship with the tower arms, like the booster. https://t.co/tss9Lb4fWr”
“Sounds very fishy [@MarioNawfal] 🚨EX-USAID CHIEF SAMANTHA POWER’S NET WORTH SKYROCKETS—FROM $6.7M TO $30M ON A $180K SALARY Samantha Power, Biden’s ex-USAID chief, saw her wealth explode while earning just $180K per year. Where did the extra $23.3M come from? And all of this in just 3 years! USAID oversees… )”
“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”
“Since your handle is “Whole Mars”, perhaps this lengthy reply is apropos: Getting the cost per ton to the surface of Mars low enough that humanity has the resources to make life multiplanetary requires a roughly 1000X improvement in rocket & spacecraft technology. Recent US…”
“13 years ago [@KanekoaTheGreat] Elon Musk talks to Jon Stewart about Paypal, Tesla, and SpaceX in 2012. "When I was in college, there were three areas I thought would most affect the future of humanity: the internet, sustainable energy, & space exploration, particularly making life multiplanetary." @elonmusk”
“Mass drivers on the Moon will be awesome 😎 [@cb_doge] ELON MUSK: SpaceX will build a mass driver on the moon. "If you want to go beyond a mere terawatt per year, you have to go to the moon. So by having factories on the moon, building AI satellites and having a mass driver, which is the kind of thing you really need to learn about”
“To be clear, SpaceX is supporting a student design competition for STEM, not trying to build Hyperloop itself. Other cos are doing latter.”
“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”
“Each rocket engine produces twice as much thrust as all 4 engines on a Boeing 747 and there are 33 of them”
