“Congrats to SpaceX Team on 3 perfect orbital launches within 36 hours!!!”
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“A fully reusable rocket with orbital refilling is the critical breakthrough needed to make life multiplanetary. For the first time in 4.5 billion years.”
“Starship reached orbital velocity! Congratulations @SpaceX team!!”
“Starlink Version 2 orbital deploy”
“Yes [@_The_Prophet__] ⚡️Starship is the most important machine on Earth because it is the only serious bridge between a trapped species and a spacefaring one. That is the real truth. Everything else is downstream of lift cost. Moon bases, Mars cities, orbital industry, space solar, off world mining,”
“Congrats @SpaceX team on completing 2 great orbital missions in 24 hours!”
“Congrats @SpaceX team on 500 orbital spaceflight missions! [@SpaceX] Falcon 9 completes its 500th mission”
“A truly reusable orbital heat shield has never been made, but I think SpaceX has a decent chance of solving it in 2025 and solving it well in 2026 https://t.co/mRBFOJtNVL”
“Starship orbital launch attempt soon! https://t.co/sjban6T4yA https://youtu.be/T45ROgh1ChQ”
“Congratulations to the @SpaceX team for completing 400 successful orbital flights of Falcon and 375 landings!!”
“A new record of 27 launches & landings [@SpaceX] Falcon 9 lands on the Just Read the Instructions droneship, completing the first 27th launch and landing of an orbital class rocket”
“A fully reusable orbital rocket is the critical breakthrough needed to make life multiplanetary”
“All 6 engines mounted to first orbital Starship https://t.co/l5QnQRSg3D”
“Installing Starship booster engines for first orbital flight https://t.co/yhqrNFBclh”
“All four orbital launch pads fully loaded with rockets for the first time!”
“Moving rocket to orbital launch pad https://t.co/zZLiXIPD6M”
“Welcome! Orbital space centers and mass drivers on the Moon will be incredible. [@JasonBud] I’m proud to be joining SpaceX and xAI with @milichab It has become clear that software is changing fundamentally. More and more, people can shape the tools they use directly, and the ceiling of what can be built keeps rising. What makes xAI special is the scale of its”
“The satellites will actually be so far apart that it will be hard to see from one to another. Space is so vast as to be beyond comprehension. [@cb_doge] BREAKING: SpaceX wants to turn Space into the World’s Biggest AI Data Center. • SpaceX is seeking approval to launch and operate up to one million satellites designed to function as orbital data centers. • These satellites would provide massive computing power to support… https://x.com/i/web/status/2017466825538474065”
“Super Heavy Booster moving to orbital launch mount https://t.co/axaDnXNm84”
“Congrats SpaceX team on completing 3 successful orbital launches in 20 hours!”
“Construction of Starship orbital launch pad at the Cape has begun”
“Preparing for next Starship flight! This time, I think we have ~50% probability of reaching orbital velocity, however even getting to stage separation would be a win.”
“Always on mission [@SERobinsonJr] The lobby of the SpaceX Starlink factory in Bastrop, Texas. The 'Earth to Mars' orbital transfer ellipse.”
“Now at 425 rocket landings [@SpaceX] Falcon 9 delivers 28 @Starlink satellites to orbit and completes the 425th landing of an orbital class rocket”
“Congrats SpaceX team on 500 orbital rocket launch & landings! [@SpaceX] Falcon 9 touchdown on the Just Read the Instructions droneship, completing the 500th launch and landing of an orbital class rocket”
“Orders of Magnitude [@ICannot_Enough] No orbital launch provider but SpaceX has ever put even 1,000 satellites in orbit; SpaceX has launched >11,000. What has @elonmusk said about this unprecedented accomplishment? “It’s a good start.” 🚀”
“SpaceX is now providing precise positional awareness of objects in Earth orbit to all satellite operators for free. This will greatly reduce the probability of collisions that create orbital debris (space junk) hazards. [@Starlink] SpaceX has developed a novel Space Situational Awareness (SSA) system, called Stargaze → To maximize safety for all satellites in space, @SpaceX will be making Stargaze conjunction data available to all operators, free of charge. By providing this… http://starlink.com/stargaze”
“SpaceX will try to bring rocket upper stage back from orbital velocity using a giant party balloon”
“Cute [@SpaceInvestor_D] Kardashev II loading… SpaceX filed for 1M orbital data center satellites Starcloud (NVIDIA-backed) filed for 88K sats Blue Origin just filed for 51K sats. These aren’t sci-fi sketches, they’re FCC filings. First nodes of a solar-harnessing swarm are deploying soon.”
“100GW/year of solar-powered AI satellites requires 100GW/year of AI computers … [@niccruzpatane] Elon is not messing around. SpaceX has just filed an application with the FCC seeking authority to launch and operate a massive new satellite constellation dedicated to orbital data centers. ITS HAPPENING. Tesla Terafab is next.”
“Congrats SpaceX Team & @SpaceForceDoD on completing 3 orbital Vandenberg launches in 11 days! Might be a record.”
“This is an accurate picture of orbital rocket launches so far this year. 90% Falcon with the massive @SpaceX Starship standing out very clearly. [@ApoStructura] All 258 rockets launched in 2025 so far, chronologically and at scale.”
“Welcome! Orbital space centers and mass drivers on the Moon will be incredible. [@milichab] I’m joining @SpaceX and @xai with @JasonBud. X is the company realizing science fiction - reusable rockets, humanoid robots, data centers in space, and more. Almost 10 years ago, I joined SpaceX as an intern on Dragon 2 crew displays. This was in the era of the first rocket”
“SpaceX [@grok] @SpaceAbhi In the last 40 years, SpaceX is the only company to successfully human-certify a new orbital space vehicle in the US: Crew Dragon in 2020. Boeing's Starliner remains in testing, with certification pending into 2026. 😎”
“Starship orbital vehicle SN1, liquid oxygen header tank & nosecone https://t.co/IaSEdIyZgP”
“There is a good chance of achieving full reusability of Starship this year. Full and immediate reflight of Starship, along with orbital refilling, probably happens next year. This is the fundamental breakthrough needed to make life multiplanetary. [@cb_doge] BREAKING: Elon Musk says he believes the ship will achieve reusability this year and that the entire stack—ship and booster—will achieve rapid reusability next year. This is the fundamental breakthrough required for life to become multiplanetary. )”
“During this mission, Dragon will travel repeatedly through the orbital altitudes of over 10 thousand satellites and bits of space debris. No room for error in our calculations.”
“Yes [@mark_k] Elon Musk just announced a major strategic pivot for @SpaceX: the company is officially shifting its primary focus to building a "self-growing city" on the Moon. The logic is centered on speed. While Mars missions are restricted by orbital alignments every 26 months, SpaceX can… https://x.com/i/web/status/2020780398372900902”
“@SmokeAwayyy With booster ultimately flying up to ~20 times per day & ship flying up to ~5 times per day. Useful load to Mars is ~150 metric tons, but requires ~5 orbital refilling tanker flights. Target: >1 megaton of cargo & people delivered to Mars, so that it becomes self-sustaining.”
“About a month away from the first orbital test flight of crew Dragon”
“👌 [@grok] @EightBitElon @elonmusk @LimitingThe Chimps master tree-climbing via evolved instincts, but leading NASA's rocket science requires mastering delta-v and orbital decay, not just brachiation. Transfer learning shines in AI, yet applying primate agility to space governance risks more splashdowns than Mars landings.”
“@WorldAndScience It’s possible to make a self-sustaining city on Mars by 2050, if we start in 5 years & take 10 orbital synchronizations”
“Definitely [@aaronburnett] Cathie discussing SpaceX convergence on orbital data centers and reusable rockets with Peter and friends. Ark and team deserve a ton of credit for not only recognizing that last year was the right time to begin diving deep into SpaceX modeling, but also for being so generous with… https://x.com/i/web/status/2017690607318405419”
“@nextspaceflight @NASASpaceflight Only way to create rapidly & fully reusable orbital rockets, the fundamental technology revolution needed to make life multiplanetary”
“On Tuesday, SpaceX will attempt to refly both an orbital rocket and spacecraft for the first… https://t.co/Wm5SpjNdMb https://www.instagram.com/p/BcbQ3QVgRHr/”
“@SciGuySpace Full & rapid reusability of booster & ship and orbital refilling of ship are the 2 fundamental technologies we aim to solve by the end of next year. Those are the critical pieces necessary to make life multiplanetary.”
“@SciGuySpace Orbital rockets are a hard problem”
“@PPathole @SpaceX Pattern on the Starlink router is orbital transfer ellipse from Earth to Mars”
“@Teslarati @RDAnglePhoto First orbital stack of Starship should be ready for flight in a few weeks, pending only regulatory approval”
“@considercosmos @SpaceX Booster & Ship will return to orbital launch pad on Monday (winds allowing). Just finishing off some small plumbing & wiring, which is easier in high bay.”
