“To be clear here, the Verizon communication system to air traffic control is breaking down very rapidly. The FAA assessment is single digit months to catastrophic failure, putting air traveler safety at serious risk. The Starlink terminals are being sent at NO COST to the… [@MarioNawfal] 🚨🇺🇸STARLINK COULD REPLACE VERIZON—AND THE SWAMP IS PANICKING The FAA is on the verge of canceling Verizon’s bloated $2.4 billion contract and handing it to Starlink—a move that would bring faster, safer, and more reliable air traffic control services. And guess who’s furious?… )”
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“There are potentially serious concerns about the long-term safety of the @Space_Station. Some parts of it are simply getting too old and obviously that risk grows over time. Even though @SpaceX earns billions of dollars from transporting astronauts & cargo to the ISS, I [@CJHandmer] The ISS's structural integrity is far more marginal than is being publicly discussed. We are having multiple, and increasingly frequent, leaks from heavily fatigued node segments in the Russian section. When Aluminum gets flexed it fatigues and gets harder, increasing its”
“Unless Trump wins and we get rid of the mountain of smothering regulations (that have nothing to do with safety!), humanity will never reach Mars. This is existential.”
“SpaceX letter to Congress. The @FAANews leadership spends their resources attacking @SpaceX for petty matters that have nothing to do with safety, while neglecting real safety issues at Boeing. This is deeply wrong and puts human lives at risk. NASA deemed the Boeing capsule…”
“Shouldn’t the head of an organization responsible for regulating the safety of airplanes & rockets know something about how they work?”
“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”
“And it only gets better from here. Tesla is still on track to launch autonomous ride hailing in Austin in June and roll out to many cities in America by the end of this year. The threshold is achieving safety far in excess of the average human driver. Ultimately, autonomous… [@WholeMarsBlog] Tesla Full Self-Driving (Supervised) 13.2.7 took me from Oakland Airport to San Francisco, crossing the Bay Bridge, and I never touched the steering wheel or pedals once. )”
“@TheZvi Because everyone’s job is safety. It’s not some fake department with no power to assuage the concerns of outsiders. Tesla has no safety team and is the safest car. SpaceX has no safety team and has the safest rocket. Dragon is what NASA trusts most to fly astronauts.”
“Not saying the next gen Roadster special upgrade package *will* definitely enable it to fly short hops, but maybe … Certainly possible. Just a question of safety. Rocket tech applied to a car opens up revolutionary possibilities.”
“Pics of SpaceX spacesuit developed for NASA commercial crew program coming out next week. Undergoing ocean landing mobility/safety tests.”
“@WholeMarsBlog V11.4 is excellent. Several days of driving to random pin drop locations in Austin. Zero safety-critical interventions.”
“@SecDuffy The safety of air travel is a non-partisan matter. SpaceX engineers will help make air travel safer.”
“@NASA @SpaceX @Space_Station @Commercial_Crew Dragon 2 was designed to land using thrusters, with parachutes as backup. Switched to chutes as primary, due to difficulty of proving safety, but Dragon can still do it. https://t.co/Mr7VFIQwWf https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=07Pm8ZY0XJI”
“Dragon can also hover & land propulsively, but we use the parachutes for maximum safety https://t.co/Mr7VFIQwWf https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=07Pm8ZY0XJI”
“@MarioNawfal Amazingly, no Starliner fines for Boeing! The FAA space division is harassing SpaceX about nonsense that doesn’t affect safety while giving a free pass to Boeing even after NASA concluded that their spacecraft was not safe enough to bring back the astronauts. There need to be…”
“@WholeMarsBlog 12.4.2 is much smoother. Challenge is keeping safety high, while increasing ride comfort. Build moves to internal testing tomorrow.”
“@WholeMarsBlog @tkrisher He’s actually a lobbyist, not a journalist. There are many who pose as the latter while behaving like the former. No integrity. Indeed, there were no safety issues. The car simply slowed to ~2 mph & continued forward if clear view with no cars or pedestrians.”
“Winds aloft are unusually high (still within structural safety bounds). Worrying, but not a showstopper. https://t.co/epHQQvajOZ https://x.com/spacex/status/859000342985424896”
“@TeslaOwnersEBay @GailAlfarATX @Tesla @EvaFoxU @Proxima06_Aiai @DBurkland @lewins_ian @Lstad78 @1stMarsColonist @JosephVVallace @dubbleotrippleo No, I meant wide release to high safety score beta participants. Going to all beta participants is expected later this year.”
“@Erdayastronaut @SpaceX All correct. Parachutes were originally the backup landing system, with SuperDraco thrusters as primary. Difficulty of proving thruster landing safety *and* architecture being suboptimal for moon/Mars caused us to change focus to parachutes.”
“@NoahWebb_ @WholeMarsBlog @tkrisher Will begin limited rollout to Canada this month. Safety is paramount, so we have to confirm no significant issues, given slightly different road rules.”
“@WholeMarsBlog Expansion will be gradual, based on ensuring maximum safety”
“@kulpability @NASA Crew Dragon should be physically ready & at the Cape in Feb, but completing all safety reviews will probably take a few more months”
“@jgrano305 @WholeMarsBlog Tentative plan is 98 & above starts uploading Friday afternoon next week. If we see any concerns, uploads will pause while we investigate, so might take a few days before everyone with 98 safety gets beta 10.4. 10.4 improves left turns across fast traffic & stopping for gates.”
“@PPathole @DELTA_V @spacex360 After several successful launches, land overflight earlier in trajectory passes E-sub-c safety threshold. That said, Starship will also launch from Cape long-term.”
“@24_7TeslaNews @WholeMarsBlog We are rolling 10.4 out slowly, as there are many subtle hardware differences in the owner fleet. If it continues to look good over the next few days, we may start rolling out to 98 safety scores.”
“@WholeMarsBlog One step at a time. Safety is paramount.”
“@WholeMarsBlog Yeah, we just need to confirm there are no safety regressions”
“@DJSnM @RocketTenor @NASA @SpaceX @Space_Station @Commercial_Crew For cargo missions, propulsive land landing should be no problem. Doesn’t have same safety criticality as crew.”
“@SciGuySpace We had to reallocate some resources to speed this up & received great support from Airborne, our parachute supplier. I was at their Irvine factory with the SpaceX team on Sat and Sun. We’re focusing on the advanced Mk3 chute, which provides highest safety factor for astronauts.”
“RT @michaelnicollsx: Starlink is beginning a significant reconfiguration of its satellite constellation focused on increasing space safety.…”
“RT @michaelnicollsx: Proud of the groundbreaking work the @starlink team is doing to advance space safety. With Stargaze, we have the begin…”
“@realRickyReeves @Erdayastronaut @NASA Crew Dragon is capable of propulsive landing, but would require extensive testing to prove safety. Better to focus on Starship.”
“The tower has caught the rocket!! https://t.co/CPXsHJBdUh”
“Starship rocket booster caught by tower https://t.co/aOQmSkt6YE”
“Great energy from @SpaceX fans in Mexico https://t.co/R695MUaicc”
“Falcon going to orbit as seen from ocean https://t.co/Dclhju24ya”
“But then I started thinking about Mars”
“Great video of Starship Super Heavy Booster landing as seen from Mexico! 🇲🇽 https://t.co/R695MUaicc”
“We should send rockets not at each other, but rather to the stars https://t.co/h4apedUrsU”
“Starship Flight 2 https://t.co/ZfJ9ERl5ET”
“Even rockets need hugs 🥰 https://t.co/oF36F0AvBf”
“🇺🇸🇺🇸 AMERICA IS GOING TO MARS 🇺🇸🇺🇸 https://t.co/Jfvi43YWse”
“Still hard to believe Starship is real https://t.co/YJCRGrPNS7”
“Starship reentering like a meteor https://t.co/YjfVIHLLCl”
“This is the final straw. Because of this law and the many others that preceded it, attacking both families and companies, SpaceX will now move its HQ from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas.”
“Starship is ready to fly https://t.co/3PIb5FhHaR”
“@FedorovMykhailo Starlink service is now active in Ukraine. More terminals en route.”
“Great work by the Starship team!”
“Given the terrible flooding in Rio Grande do Sul, @Starlink will donate 1000 terminals to emergency responders and make usage for all terminals in the region free until the region has recovered. I hope the best for the people of Brazil. https://t.co/NK6kjz7Iag”
