“@xandriteme @NASA @SpaceX @Space_Station @Commercial_Crew Best to use a giant brake pad, aka heat shield”
The tweet archive.
15 years of Elon, fully searchable. The production archive uses Supabase as the source of truth, with 94,952 indexed tweets available in development as a full-archive fallback and a curated annotation layer for context, theory, and how major claims aged.
“@katlinegrey @Zvezdichko @SciGuySpace Strange, as SpaceX lands on land frequently. Russia has very talented engineers, but they must be given reusability as goal or success is impossible.”
“RT @tetsuoai: Try this Grok Imagine prompt. 💫 >>> prompt Subject: colossal biomechanical oni-dragon looming over defiant silver-haired gi…”
“RT @SawyerMerritt: NEWS: The Indonesian National Police have installed a total of 76 @Starlink terminals in flood and landslide-affected ar…”
“RT @wholemars: She was definitely biased. That’s why the Delaware Supreme Court ended up overturning her other decision to cancel his pay p…”
“@marshall5912 @buckycovington @MacTechGenius They can form a union whenever they want & there’s nothing I can do to stop them. California is a very pro-union state. They just don’t want to.”
“@eBookBooster Zork with AI dungeon master”
“@Lord_Lima_Bean @UHDDreamer @LanceUlanoff Exactly. Total energy stored even in ultra compressed air is low vs battery, but power output is insane. The composite overwrapped pressure vessel (COPV) is most advanced ever made. It’s what SpaceX is qualifying for NASA crewed missions. Extremely robust — literally bulletproof.”
“@meier1028 @SpaceX @Space_Station @AstroBehnken @Astro_Doug Great game”
“Headed to Cape Canaveral tomorrow for first @SpaceX geostationary satellite launch.”
“@LytovchenkoSerg @John_Gardi @Erdayastronaut Rocket booster temperatures won’t go much above 600 Kelvin on hottest parts of main body & maybe around 1200K on base, which uncooled steel can handle. Starship is around 1700K for a Mach 25 entry, so needs shielding of some kind.”
“But if humanity wishes to become a multi-planet species, then we must figure out how to move millions of people to Mars.”
“@GeffenAvraham @BryanFlanks @SpellMender @VladKarmon @torybruno @ULAEngineer @SpaceX 👆”
“@openaicommunity @Starlink Still using my ancient PC laptop with the @DOGE sticker made long ago by a fan”
“@spacesudoer Yeah, wrong planet for SSTO. No problem on Mars with ~37% Earth gravity.”
“@bluemoondance74 @Erdayastronaut @justpaulinelol @mayemusk @SpaceX Overall successful. Aborted at T+51 sec on high mixture ratio, but we were intentionally probing the corners of the box of operating conditions, so not surprising.”
“@The_ShadowZone @DJSnM For sure more than one pass coming back to Earth. To Mars could maybe work single pass, but two passes probably wise.”
“@HarryStoltz1 @ShorealoneFilms Details coming at Starship update”
“@ajtourville @Starlink Yeah. So far, it is the only one.”
“@Malcolmmarsman Contour remains approx same, but fundamental materials change to airframe, tanks & heatshield”
“@realRickyReeves @Erdayastronaut @NASA Crew Dragon is capable of propulsive landing, but would require extensive testing to prove safety. Better to focus on Starship.”
“@marstronauts @Erdayastronaut Between $100B and $10T”
“RT @ashleevance: Fun story. This was the event that really compelled me to want to write a book about @elonmusk, @Tesla and @SpaceX. There…”
“RT @SawyerMerritt: NEWS: Ukraine has just become one of the first countries in the world to launch Starlink Direct to Cell technology, whic…”
“RT @AstroDesires: This scene in Iron Man 2 was shot at SpaceX HQ. Parts of Falcon 9 are visible in the background. Even the people in th…”
“@RenataKonkoly @Erdayastronaut @SpaceX It’s also because of the Spitfire engine & wizard”
“@0411ashwin Colonizing Mars one mug at a time!”
“@ikrbkv @MARINAVALOVA2 @alexmd2 @SpaceX A biography on Korolev has center place in my study”
“@nathalieX70 @KettlebellDan Thanks for the feedback. Will improve the @Starlink non-English websites.”
“@Malcolmmarsman @flcnhvy @marstronauts @Erdayastronaut @JaneidyEve @13ericralph31 @SPEXcast @bluemoondance74 @Orion_Sword @Some1gee @SpaceX 3 months”
“@PPathole @Erdayastronaut @rmarcilhoo @kimitalvitie @SpaceXNow @ChrisG_NSF @NASASpaceflight Add 2 to 4 more Raptors for Starship point to point on Earth. You can go surprisingly far, even with low lift/drag. This was an unexpected result.”
“@Teslaconomics @SpaceX Yes”
“@annerajb No, it’s the first or boost stage, analogous to, but much larger than Falcon 9”
“RT @BoyanSlat: To me, one of the main lessons from SpaceX is that companies can continue to experience startup-like rates of progress as lo…”
“@TheOldSchoolLib @peterrhague @Space_Station @SpaceX !!”
“@longmier @Starlink @FCC Thanks!”
“RT @TrungTPhan: Elon e-mail from 2013 on why SpaceX should stay private until it’s reached certain technological milestones: ▫️ “Public co…”
“@lister6520 @justpaulinelol @MattLBates @Erdayastronaut You’re touching on a good critique of Falcon 9. Our 1st stage to 2nd stage propellant ratio is too high. We’re fixing that with Starship.”
“@WholeMarsBlog @MarcusHouseGame @Neopork85 @SpaceX @Erdayastronaut @SpaceToday1 @ElonsWorld @FelixSchlang @ChrisG_NSF @DJSnM Not yet”
“RT @EvaFoxU: A young Elon Musk plays Mars Marauder 😄 https://t.co/ZOgLkVHiMU”
“@GoForStaging @13ericralph31 @varunversion1 @Erdayastronaut @SpaceX Yes, already planned. We avoid use of certain lower Ku frequencies specifically for radio astronomy.”
“Amazing repair job of Falcon 9 ocean landing vid by @NASASpaceflight forum. Now shows leg deploy http://t.co/EYoaRjEn9Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoufUV5oGTo&sns=em”
“@medicgordus @WholeMarsBlog That is somehow actually their rationale”
“@dougdonnell @Starlink Thanks”
“@Erdayastronaut @JaneidyEve @13ericralph31 @SPEXcast @bluemoondance74 @Orion_Sword @Some1gee @SpaceX ~2.8m”
“@flcnhvy Current global payload to orbit capacity is about 500 tons per year, of which Falcon is about half”
“@FonsDK @SawyerMerritt @WholeMarsBlog @jasondebolt Yes!”
“@longmier @Starlink Almost there”
“@annerajb @highlyaaronic Orbital refilling is critical for high payload to moon or Mars. Initially just Starship to Starship, later dedicated tankers.”
“@JaneidyEve @arstechnica @TeslaMotors @SpaceX Suggestions welcome!”
