15 years of Elon, fully searchable. The production archive uses Supabase as the source of truth, with 94,952 indexed tweets available in development as a full-archive fallback and a curated annotation layer for context, theory, and how major claims aged.
“@C_Bass3d @Erdayastronaut @NASASpaceflight @FelixSchlang Very impressive render. Note, legs will be bigger & there’ll be way more stuff in engine bay. Main engines actually do majority of work in turning ship vertical before landing.”
“@Kristennetten @engineers_feed Metal has a fudge-like consistency near its melting point, so you can just smoosh it together”
“@engineers_feed This is how we make Falcon 9”
“@johnkrausphotos @Erdayastronaut @queue_max @NASASpaceflight Yeah, full name of engine is Velociraptor or Raptor for short”
“@engineers_feed Tbh, I must confess to occasionally pontificating about high-concept things”
“@engineers_feed Pretty much”
“@matfabrix @engineers_feed Witch logic https://t.co/o5xAopSNw1 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g”
“@matfabrix @engineers_feed Things we take for granted, like flying, would have had you burned at the stake for witchcraft not that long ago”
“@engineers_feed [slow drag on cigarette) Facebook? Haven’t heard that name in years …”
“@SciGuySpace Especially for boost stage, which is volumetrically constrained, CH4 is way better than H2. Soviet CH4 engine prototypes from 80’s were very advanced. Glad to see reusability is being factored in.”
“@LewisMartin_ @engineers_feed Gigafactory is the product even more than the car”
“@engineers_feed Carefully hidden”
“@GerberKawasaki Great work by Tesla software engineering”
“@teslaownersSV @engineers_feed The strength & perseverance of the people of Tesla, despite facing extreme difficulties”
“@engineers_feed Playable on any Tesla!”
“@katlinegrey Reusability is essential. A rocket that is single use is just as absurd as a single use airplane. F9 engines already fire 3 times per flight.”
“@engineers_feed 48 65 78 20 74 6f 20 74 65 78 74”
“@mjkapkan @EvaFoxU @Tesla Probably a good one to design & engineer in Germany”
“@EvaFoxU @Tesla Berlin Model Y is the one to watch. That is a revolution in automotive body engineering (finally).”
“@mojosusan @GovStitt @Tesla I love Texas! Starship production complex is in Boca Chica & SpaceX engine development has been in McGregor for almost 18 years.”
“@vincent13031925 @teslacn We are putting a lot of effort into improving the Tesla China experience with local engineering & great feedback from Tesla owners in China!”
“@justpaulinelol @engineers_feed As foretold by https://t.co/LJJCD7BAgX http://stankmemes.com”
“@engineers_feed Stonks”
“@Erdayastronaut @i_gvf @SciGuySpace Exactly. Chartering a dedicated 747 flight around the world costs less than buying a small, single engine turboprop plane. In the same way, a giant reusable rocket flight is way cheaper than a tiny expendable rocket that can be used only once.”
“@engineers_feed Wow”
“@venus47203379 @engineers_feed Haha. Will post summary.”
“@SciGuySpace Combined with SpaceX deep subcooling of propellants to near liquefaction temp of N2, use of common dome (CH4 & O2 liquid at similar temps) & higher T/W of engines enables de facto higher delta-V than an H2/O2 stage”
“@SciGuySpace Quite a piece! I should credit Soviet/Russian engine work in the 80’s as being a factor in deciding to switch from H2 to CH4. They demonstrated excellent performance on test stands, with Isp up to 380 secs.”
“@engineers_feed And those who weren’t expecting a ternary joke”
“@scale_banana @engineers_feed Where’s the banana!?”
“@engineers_feed Falcon/Dragon are designed to withstand multiple lightning strikes, but we don’t think it would be wise to take this risk”
“@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”
“@sara_boutall @RenataKonkoly @Johnnaaaaaaaaaa @MichaelGalanin @romanhistory1 @engineers_feed @Kristennetten 🤣💕”
“SN4 passed high pressure (7.5 bar) & engine thrust load at cryo”
“@engineers_feed B-nut 🤣”
“@sara_boutall @28delayslater @Kristennetten @RenataKonkoly @Johnnaaaaaaaaaa @MichaelGalanin @Physicsastrono9 @fermatslibrary @MAstronomers @engineers_feed Turns out hobbits are enormous”
“@sspencer_smb @flcnhvy It’s not all about engineering, although that is my personal favorite. Striving to make products or provide services in excess of what you consume is the noble goal.”
“@flcnhvy @NASASpaceflight Yeah, although hydrogen is not a great choice for a booster engine”
“@NASASpaceflight It’s so tragic that these engines just crash into the ocean every flight”
“@thirdrowtesla Tesla & SpaceX are the top two destinations for engineers, because you can have the most fun creating kickass technology! That’s why.”
“What’s wild is that Super Heavy will have 31 Raptor engines in same space!”
“@BlazingTorchic_ Who is running this lame collection of bots & trolls anyway? Try harder! I’m an engineer, knucklehead. Just do “business” on the side.”
“@Kristennetten A little. Will have 31 engines, not 37, no big fins and legs similar to ship. That thrust dome is the super hard part. Raptor SL thrust starts at 200 ton, but upgrades in the works for 250 ton.”
“@engineers_feed @SpaceX @Space_Station @NASA @Commercial_Crew @AstroBehnken @Astro_Doug Even Королёв would agree”
“@engineers_feed @SpaceX @NASA Great work by SpaceX team & very much appreciate faith in Starship by @NASA!”
“@SpacePadreIsle @SpaceX Great work by SpaceX engineering!”
“@RenataKonkoly @Erdayastronaut @SpaceX It’s also because of the Spitfire engine & wizard”
“@cleantechnica Many talented engineers are working on FSD at Tesla. What matters is solving vision at high frame rate in our compute space with low latency between camera frame & actuation.”
“@bluemoondance74 @MichaelCanary02 @Erdayastronaut @dwesterster Raptor is going through many development tests. Merlin is doing acceptance tests, as the design is stable. Depending on how you count them, there are about 6 engine stands operating in parallel.”
“@Kristennetten @TeslaGong @mattkalin @kimbal Reviewing overall system with vehicle engineering team next week. Should have number then.”
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