“Starlink just achieved a new internal median latency record of 28ms yesterday! Great work by the engineering and operations teams.”
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“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”
“I worked most of the weekend too. Still do. Only left the Tesla engineering lab in Palo Alto a few hours ago. [@Dogetothemoon] Back in the day, @ElonMusk spent three days at SpaceX and two days at Tesla, and weekends at home with his five sons and his wife. I don't think he had time to hang out with Epstein on the island.”
“Austin is great [@muskonomy] 🚨NEWS: SpaceX hiring engineers in Austin and Seattle to build AI satellites and space data centers. VP of Starlink Engineering Michael Nicolls also revealed a new 230 MeV radiation testing facility in Florida to speed up development across all SpaceX vehicles.”
“Shortly before the next flight, I will do a live technical update on Starship, going over progress to date and engineering/production/launch plans for the future. [@johnkrausphotos] New SpaceX website looks great!Lots of details on upcoming launches, not just the ones a day or two away. Awesome new Cape Canaveral Starship pad render, too. http://SpaceX.com”
“Raptor 3 is engineering art [@XFreeze] Raptor 3 is engineering black magic SpaceX’s Raptor is the FIRST full-flow staged combustion engine to ever fly - only the 3rd ever built (after the Soviet RD-270 and the 2000s US demo that never flew) → Both fuel-rich + oxidizer-rich preburners → 100% of propellant through”
“Look at the tiny cars in the foreground to get a sense of the vastness of the building [@HalcyonHypnotic] Hot take but SpaceX is probably the best civil engineering company in the world. Somehow they are able to make these insanely complex ground system and building designs and find the perfect contractors and technicians to build out their ideas in months or 1-2 years. I feel like”
“Best rocket engine ever: Full-flow, staged combustion 330 bar main chamber pressure Highest T/W Inexpensive to build [@teslaownersSV] SpaceX’s Raptor 3 engine is sublime engineering • No basic heat shield needed → saves mass and dramatically boosts reliability • Small fuel leaks aren’t dangerous — they simply burn off safely in the open plasma • Major improvements in payload capacity, efficiency, and… https://x.com/i/web/status/2014586403200610626”
“Starship V3 booster & ship will be ready for their first test flight in a few weeks [@XFreeze] Both Starship and the Super Heavy Booster have successfully completed the static fire tests and are ready to take to the skies Every test brings us one step closer to making humanity multi-planetary "Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the real world" —”
“Such is my nature [@GailAlfarATX] Sept 2023: Walter Isaacson tells Vanity Fair that Elon Musk is the most intense person he’s met, focused on engineering and expanding humanity to Mars. “Nobody else was that way.” Does Elon bring that same intensity to @DOGE or will he finally get enough sleep?”
“Using Grok Imagine to fly around Mars! You can do the same for the Moon, Mount Everest, time travel to ancient Egypt or even fictional places like Middle Earth or imaginary planets. [@EngineeringInsd] Brought some @NASA pics from Mars to life with Imagine.”
“🔥🖤 SpaceX Engineering 🖤🔥”
“At @SpaceX Texas with engineering team getting ready to fire new Raptor rocket engine https://t.co/ACFM8AtY8w”
“Much of what people think of an science is actually engineering, eg no such thing as a “rocket scientist”, only rocket engineers. Latter is who put humans on the moon.”
“@crheller @SpaceX Glad it’s working! The sheer amount of work done by SpaceX engineering, production & launch teams is amazing. Ping should improve dramatically in coming months. We’re aiming for <20ms. Basically, you should be able to play competitive FPS games through Starlink.”
“Russia has excellent rocket engineering & best engine currently flying. Reusable version of their new Angara rocket would be great. https://t.co/6RLvf5R4ni https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/with-dragon-russian-critic-says-roscosmos-acting-left-behind/”
“@ID_AA_Carmack I have great admiration for John’s engineering ability! What he did with Armadillo was incredible. I’ve tried to convince him many times to join SpaceX, but he has always declined (sigh).”
“@JessePeltan For anything to do with engineering and science for sure, but Imperial has a certain romantic charm for civilian use. I set a more intuitive variant of metric for Starship: tons for force and mass, bar for pressure. It’s easier to do mental math, eg thrust to mass ratio, than”
“@aparanjape @Erdayastronaut @SpaceX I do think that great design & engineering of products are critical, but manufacturing & supply chain require orders of magnitude more work”
“@WholeMarsBlog FSD is best in Bay Area, given engineering mostly lives there, but rest of country will soon be at that level”
“@bluemoondance74 @ThugsAndMiracle @tfspeakcies @DearHistorians @DeepintoHistory @HellenisticPod @TrueConsPod @IWBpodcast @Coffincast @CacheHistory @AgeofVictoria @ForYourRefPod @WWIIPodcast @namelessdeadpod @ZombieFishbowl @AgeofNapoleon Raptor is making great progress! Just finished an engineering review with SpaceX Propulsion. Engine SN 17 is about to ship to McGregor with some holiday style 🎄😀 https://t.co/3JNIyxY9H0”
“@teslaownersSV @iamyesyouareno @MarioNawfal The specific area I’m talking about is engineering, which is needed to build the best technology. Encouraging kids to learn how things work is the key. Take apart car engines, toasters, microwave ovens, speakers, etc. Make model airplanes, rockets, cars. As you’re doing this…”
“@SpacePadreIsle @SpaceX Great work by SpaceX engineering!”
“@WholeMarsBlog Tesla has great respect for software engineering, they do not”
“@MeetLuis @WARREZ420 @WholeMarsBlog Rawlinson was never chief engineer. He arrived after Model S prototype was made, left before things got tough & was only ever responsible for body engineering, not powertrain, battery, software, production or design.”
“@SamTwits My true moral error was creating Tesla & SpaceX at same time, while avoiding general mgmt chores at Tesla (focusing only on product & engineering). Tried to have my cake & eat it too, which failed.”
“@prmshra Don’t be silly. I oversaw the SpaceX engineering team that built the Dragon LiDARs used to dock with @Space_Station! They are simply the wrong solution for a complex terrestrial road system that was designed for biological neural nets and eyes. Therefore the right, imo only,…”
“RT @SoveyX: SpaceX now has over 10,000 Starlink satellites in orbit, which is honestly an absurd engineering achievement. And no, they are…”
“@spacesudoer Shana is awesome. Many years ago, I asked her to lead the early VTOL development of Falcon (aka Grasshopper) and she did great work. Now, Shana is a senior member of the Starship engineering team.”
“@Teslarati Great work by SpaceX valve engineering & production!”
“@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.”
“@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.”
“RT @DimaZeniuk: BREAKING: Elon Musk will give a live Starship update on Sunday, covering progress so far and future engineering, production…”
“@Commercial_Crew @AstroBehnken @Astro_Doug Culmination of a truly incredible amount of work by @SpaceX & @NASA engineering, along with support of all International @Space_Station countries”
“@Teslarati Great work by SpaceX parachute engineering! The Crew Dragon parachutes are way more difficult than they may seem. The Apollo program found them to be so hard that it became a notable morale problem!”
“@ICannot_Enough @WholeMarsBlog Sandy Munro understands engineering”
“@smmmmss2 SpaceX engineering, manufacturing & launch teams did amazing work”
“RT @teslaownersSV: SpaceX’s Raptor 3 engine is sublime engineering • No basic heat shield needed → saves mass and dramatically boosts reli…”
“@alexmd2 @SpaceX Definitely! It’s amazing that the RD-170 & RD-180 engines held the record for so many decades. Excellent engineering.”
“@EverydayTesla Yeah, engineering is ~90% of my time at SpaceX & about ~60% at Tesla”
“@FredericLambert @georgezachary I had to focus on solving a painfully large number of engineering & manufacturing problems at Tesla (especially) & SpaceX”
“@EvaFoxU The premature death of a rocket engineering genius was a great blow”
“RT @DimaZeniuk: Super Heavy booster is pure engineering art https://t.co/MWO5565aNb”
“RT @DimaZeniuk: Elon Musk on Starship at X Takeover: • Starship is one of the hardest engineering challenges ever attempted — three times…”
“@Erdayastronaut Amazing work over many years by SpaceX engineering/production/launch teams to get (almost) there”
“RT @teslaownersSV: SpaceX’s Raptor 3 engine is sublime engineering • No basic heat shield needed → saves mass and dramatically boosts reli…”
“RT @teslaownersSV: Engineering is magic Starship is the first ever rocket designed to take us to Mars. https://t.co/SZ8GG6g9xK”
“@nextspaceflight @Erdayastronaut @DiscoverMag Yes. Sensitive propulsion & avionics remained dry. Great work by SpaceX Dragon engineering team. Major improvement over Dragon 1.”
“RT @teslaownersSV: Elon Musk “A fully reusable orbital rocket may be the hardest engineering problem of all time. SpaceX is tackling it wit…”
“@benoitdenayer @navincho @katlinegrey Essentially, yes. Great engineering talent, but should focus on reusable rockets for purpose of a permanent human base on the moon and self-sustaining city on Mars.”
