“@jessica_kirsh @SpaceX Booster production is currently ahead of engine production”
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“@WatchersTank @SpaceX We’re almost done with first prototype booster. This will go to test stand A. Next one will fly to orbit. Team has been crushing it many days & nights in a row!”
“If u saw @TheSimpsons and wonder why @SpaceX doesn't use an electric rocket to reach orbit, it is cuz that is impossible”
“@ErcXspace @austinbarnard45 @SpaceX @NASASpaceflight Might take a few kicks at the can before we catch the rocket haha”
“Presentation of @SpaceX Interplanetary Spaceship & Rocket design from 2016 https://t.co/3b1YWWmmxg https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=H7Uyfqi_TE8”
“@roscosmos @Rogozin @JimBridenstine Thank you on behalf of SpaceX! We have always admired your rocket/spacecraft technology.”
“@AdamLowisz Other companies are not trying to extend consciousness to the stars, so they aim too low. Even if SpaceX fails in this grand goal, we still end up with vastly more capable rockets.”
“RT @teslaownersSV: SpaceX is making fully rapidly reusable rockets The holy grail of rocketry https://t.co/VgdOiRJSxl”
“@SpaceX @INTELSAT Thanks @INTELSAT! Really proud of the rocket and SpaceX team today. Min apogee requirement was 28,000 km, Falcon 9 achieved 43,000 km.”
“RT @SpaceX: The second successful catch of the Super Heavy booster https://t.co/FanOyDoE8Z”
“@flcnhvy @DJSnM Neuralink this month & Tesla next month, SpaceX probably October. We will have made a lot of progress by then. Might have a prototype booster hop done by then.”
“RT @SpaceX: Super Heavy has splashed down in the Gulf of America, gathering data for the next generation booster https://t.co/o72ciKBZYm”
“RT @SpaceX: Liftoff of the first flight-proven Super Heavy booster and thrice flown Raptor engine https://t.co/dwXkhVyRG6”
“@ID_AA_Carmack SpaceX’s goal is to make life multiplanetary, whereas their goal is to put a handful of satellites in orbit”
“@ErcXspace @SpaceX @Erdayastronaut @MarcusHouseGame @FelixSchlang Great render. Note, there will need to be an arm that lifts booster to launch stand & ship to booster.”
“@_rykllan @SpaceX @NASASpaceflight @FelixSchlang @MarcusHouse @bluemoondance74 The rocket fleet grows”
“@TLPN_Official @SpaceX Depending on progress with Booster 4, we might try a 9 engine firing on Booster 3”
“@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.”
“Sabotage of the rocket is unlikely, but this article has some great theories :) https://t.co/1fCRbZvRHo https://theringer.com/ranking-potential-saboteurs-of-elon-musks-spacex-venture-ff66e7e2b23f#.kdgjprg5c”
“@ErcXspace @NASASpaceflight @SpaceX Long-term, ship would land on tower arms, like booster”
“RT @SpaceX: Installing the redesigned fuel transfer tube into the first next generation Super Heavy booster. Roughly the same size as the…”
“@JTLonsdale @JeffBezos In past years, Blue Origin also sued to stop SpaceX from using what is now our primary launchpad at 39A and tried to patent landing a rocket on a ship, even though that idea had been around for 70 years!”
“@Erdayastronaut @SpaceX @BoeingSpace @ulalaunch @Boeing Slight booster length increase to 70m, so 120m for whole system. Liftoff mass ~5000 mT.”
“@teslaownersSV Later this year, if fate smiles upon SpaceX, the ship will be caught by the tower, just like the booster”
“@Erdayastronaut @thesheetztweetz @BryceSpaceTech @SpaceX @Arianespace @ArianeGroup @roscosmos @northropgrumman @ulalaunch @torybruno @isro @RocketLab True”
“@Erdayastronaut @TJ_Cooney @lrocket @SpaceX @FelixSchlang @MarcusHouseGame He became a big fan of methane, but was not pushing it initially. That came from me reading about Soviet methane engine tests that got over 380 Isp. At that Isp, a subcooled methane stage gets slightly better delta-V than a hydrogen stage.”
“@Erdayastronaut @SpaceX @Caspar_Stanley @IzanRamos2002 All mass necessitated by an engine design should count as engine mass, eg shrouds, TVC hydraulic power or excess purge gas. Raptors in production now have electric TVC, saving over a ton of hydraulics mass on booster.”
“@TashaARK Additive manufacturing of parts is still far too costly for cars, but can rapidly create tooling to accelerate pace of innovation. It’s already sensible for rocket engine parts. To the best of our knowledge, SpaceX is 2 or 3 years ahead of other companies in use of additive.”
“@torybruno @ChadBowman0 @thesheetztweetz Now, this sort of nonsense happens all the time with government contracts & everyone knows it. However, in this case, it is money diverted from making life multiplanetary, which is the goal of SpaceX, vs the ULA goal of maximizing dividends to Lockheed & Boeing. Not ok.”
“@BryceSpaceTech @SpaceX Still very tiny potatoes compared to what’s needed to make life multiplanetary”
“@WallStreetSilv That was at the SpaceX Texas rocket test site about 4 years ago. We’ve been there since 2002.”
“RT @SpaceX: Booster 18, the first Super Heavy V3, is beginning prelaunch testing. The first operations will test the booster's redesigned p…”
“@Erdayastronaut @TJ_Cooney @lrocket @SpaceX @FelixSchlang @MarcusHouseGame Tom has some great stories about experimenting with premixed O2/CH4 before SpaceX. That is not recommended haha.”
“@Erdayastronaut @SpaceX @Caspar_Stanley @IzanRamos2002 Enabling engines to take the heat without shrouds might save over 10 tons, all things considered. Shrouds are also a risk in that fuel leaks could be contained by the shroud, forming a MOX bomb. Booster is purging all 33 engine shrouds in flight to prevent this.”
“RT @SpaceX: Falcon 9 completes the first 27th launch and landing of a booster and delivers 27 @Starlink satellites to the constellation fro…”
“@MarcusHouse @LordofEa @kerrikgray @chicago_glenn @Tesla @teslaownersSV @dvorahfr @TonyadeVitti @SpaceX @SirineAti That’s the plan, unless it is damaged in testing. What really matters is that ship & booster production line is spooling up. Also, each new ship & booster has incremental design improvements.”
“RT @SpaceX: Falcon 9 completes the first 30th launch and landing of an orbital class rocket https://t.co/L7pLOhID1D”
“RT @SpaceX: Super Heavy is designed to be a fully and rapidly reusable rocket, eventually bringing aircraft-like operations to the world of…”
“RT @XFreeze: Elon Musk’s mindset in the early days of SpaceX is a masterclass in resilience 🚀 After 3 consecutive rocket failures, all the…”
“@JeffBezos Not quite "rarest". SpaceX Grasshopper rocket did 6 suborbital flights 3 years ago & is still around. https://t.co/6j9ERKCNZl”
“RT @teslaownersSV: Raptor 3: The Most Advanced Rocket Engine Ever Raptor 3 is SpaceX’s latest evolution — the best rocket engine ever made.…”
“RT @MarioNawfal: SpaceX Starbase just dropped the coolest parade float Brownsville has ever seen, a glowing rocket with the full SPACEX log…”
“@ajtourville @SpaceX The new launch pad is already designed for the 10,000 tons of thrust version, which is almost exactly 3 times more powerful than the Saturn V Moon rocket”
“RT @SpaceX: Falcon 9 lifts off from pad 4E in California ahead of completing the 400th landing of an orbital class rocket and delivering 27…”
“@astro_greek Many funny details on Raptor. The special metal alloy SpaceX created for the rocket nozzles turns green, so we painted Hulk on the first one.”
“RT @SpaceX: Falcon 9 lifts off from pad 4E in California, delivering 27 @Starlink satellites to the constellation. This single booster has…”
“Trying for another rocket landing tmrw. This time on the droneship "Of Course I Still Love You". https://t.co/6LGnzhWLLr https://x.com/spacex/status/614551591601844224”
“RT @iam_smx: Why does SpaceX build its own rockets? In 2001, Elon Musk traveled to Russia hoping to purchase refurbished Intercontinental…”
“RT @SpaceX: This is the 30th flight for the Falcon 9 booster supporting today’s @Starlink mission, now launching the most missions of the F…”
“@DJSnM @Erdayastronaut @SpaceX @Caspar_Stanley @IzanRamos2002 Electric power for booster & ship is needed even when engines aren’t running & incremental power draw of TVC isn’t too bad. We have local supercaps on each engine to deal with power spikes.”
