The tweet archive.

“Starships were meant to fly!”

“Starship will make life multiplanetary, preserving life as know from extinction events on Earth, so long as it is not smothered by bureaucracy. There is more government regulatory smothering every year. If this continues, all large projects in the United States will be illegal.…”

“@WallStreetSilv Max payload to standard Earth reference orbit is actually ~180 tons for Starship when it is fully reusable and ~300 tons if expendable. Latter number is the apples-to-apples number comparing Starship to Saturn V. >100 tons to the Starlink orbit is the operational spec minimum.”

“The first Starships to Mars will launch in 2 years when the next Earth-Mars transfer window opens. These will be uncrewed to test the reliability of landing intact on Mars. If those landings go well, then the first crewed flights to Mars will be in 4 years. Flight rate will…”

“@RenataKonkoly @lrocket Yeah, game-changer! We do still use COPVs for a few things on Starship, like nitrogen purge and engine spin start.”

“@lrocket Definitely for super high pressure tanks, but a stainless steel Starship is roughly similar in mass to a carbon fiber version (which is where we started out) and way cheaper/easier to make. Stainless gets that massive bump in strength at cryo and needs much less shielding for…”

“Falcon 9 is now ~75% reusable and requires several days between flights. Starship is designed to be 100% reusable and ultimately be ready to refly within an hour of landing. This is the key to becoming a multiplanet civilization.”

“🎶 Starships were meant to fly 🎶”

“@teslaownersSV Starship is the kind of thing that makes people from little kids to seniors excited about the future!”

“@MarioNawfal Starship V3 should be capable of close to 200 tons of payload when operating as a tanker”

“@peterrhague Almost all that matters regarding Starship is that it enables consciousness to extend permanently beyond Earth. Everything else is in the noise.”

“@DJSnM But the Moon Station that Starship will enable will be great”

“Part 2 of the Starship discussion with @Erdayastronaut”

“Everyday Astronaut interview and Starship factory tour!”

“@Cmdr_Hadfield @astroscale_HQ We could make a hungry hippo version of Starship to chomp and deorbit space debris”

“Starship is the most power flying object ever created. Currently over twice the thrust of Saturn V and, with future upgrades, three times the thrust (10,000 tons of force).”

“@SciGuySpace I think we can do it. Progress is accelerating. Starship offers a path to far greater payload to the Moon than is currently anticipated in the Artemis program. A permanently crewed Moon base is possible.”

“Starship booster makes soft landing in water, next landing will be caught by the tower arms”

“@Kristennetten We plan to move older Starships close to the fence, so people can take pics with them if they want”

“Worth mentioning that switching to ultra hard, cold-rolled stainless steel for Starship is what led me to make Cybertruck out of it too”

“If you want a detailed explanation of why I switched Starship from carbon fiber to stainless steel https://t.co/pXC0ngheiw”

“Note, a newer version of Starship has the forward flaps shifted leeward. This will help improve reliability, ease of manufacturing and payload to orbit.”

“Starship weighs 5000 tons on liftoff https://t.co/HSxBYquSNK”

“Starship separates from booster https://t.co/YZJzi122DV”

“Starship reentering like a meteor https://t.co/YjfVIHLLCl”

“Why is Starship made of stainless steel? This article from 5 years ago explains the reasons. Worth noting that the ship would have failed on reentry if made of aluminum or carbon fiber, as they can’t take the heat. https://t.co/QVAtv74quq https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a25953663/elon-musk-spacex-bfr-stainless-steel/”

“Despite loss of many tiles and a damaged flap, Starship made it all the way to a soft landing in the ocean! Congratulations @SpaceX team on an epic achievement!!”

“Successful soft landing of the Starship Super Heavy rocket booster!”

“The @SpaceX Starship launch tomorrow morning will be live-streamed exclusively on 𝕏!”

“Starship is ready to fly https://t.co/3PIb5FhHaR”

“Starship Flight 4, with many improvements, aiming to launch on Thursday! The main goal of this mission is to get much deeper into the atmosphere during reentry, ideally through max heating.”

“@Teslaconomics Starship already reached orbital velocity, which is success for all other rockets. Achieving full reusability will be profound not for reasons of valuation, but because it will enable consciousness to extend permanently beyond Earth.”

“@MarioNawfal I’m excited about the future upgrade to Starship that will extend the rocket length and take total thrust to 10,000 tons, which is ~3X Saturn V!”

“@DimaZeniuk Starship version 3 ~15m longer and will have about 3 times the thrust of Saturn V”

“@MarioNawfal Falcon and Dragon are the best in the world at what they do. The SpaceX Starship is alien technology. Nothing like it has ever been attempted, as it is capable of lifting the entire pressurized volume of the International Space Station in a single flight and will do several…”

“SpaceX might exceed 90% of all Earth payload to orbit later this year. Once Starship is launching at high rate, probably >99%. Has to be or we can’t build a city on Mars or base on moon. We file almost no patents, so nothing stopping competition from copying us.”

“Starship Flight 4 in about 2 weeks. Primary goal is getting through max reentry heating. Worth noting that no one has ever succeeded in creating a fully reusable heat shield. Shuttle required >6 months of rework.”

“Stacking Starship https://t.co/FLAwrCI9Br”

“Starships preparing for spaceflight https://t.co/cX5u17NHRQ”

“@cnunezimages A super reliable, light, reusable heat shield is the biggest technical challenge remaining for Starship”

“@Rainmaker1973 The Starship stack will probably approach ~140m (currently ~120m) over time”

“@LibertyCappy Maybe we should do this with Starship”

“@esherifftv @SciGuySpace Starship will enable a permanently occupied moon base”

“@teslaownersSV Starship is the largest flying object ever made”

“@NASA Starship has the potential to return serious tonnage from Mars within ~5 years”

“@Rainmaker1973 The Starship stack is the largest flying object by far at ~5000 metric tons”

“@JerryPikePhoto Falcon 9 is bigger than it may seem. Starship is insanely giant!”

“At 5000 tons, Starship is the largest flying object ever made. Thrust is more than double the Saturn V moon rocket. It is the first spaceship design capable of making life multiplanetary. Goal of the next mission is to make it through the meteorically extreme heat of reentry.”

“Getting ready for Flight 4 of Starship! Goal of this mission is for Starship to get through max reentry heating with all systems functioning.”

“@MarioNawfal This Starship is designed to traverse our entire solar system and beyond to the cloud of objects surrounding us. A future Starship, much larger and more advanced, will travel to other star systems.”