The tweet archive.

“Starship SN8 with rear body flaps https://t.co/GdxMbzX0ct”

“@Neopork85 @SpaceX @MarcusHouseGame We really need better legs for Starship. They’re coming.”

“SN8 Starship with flaps & nosecone should be done in about a week. Then static fire, checkouts, static fire, fly to 60,000 ft & back.”

“@austinbarnard45 Starship SN6 flew asimilar hop to SN5, but it was a much smoother & faster operation”

“@Erdayastronaut @dauqhx @universal_sci Starship propellant is ~78% oxygen, so an O2 plant on the moon would be enough. Otherwise, we could brute-force it with tankers to low Earth orbit. That’s probably faster.”

“@Erdayastronaut Yeah, Starship will be a tiny dot at 20km. Hard to see with naked eye. We’ll do lots of flights.”

“@KenKirtland17 @torybruno @ulalaunch @SpaceX @blueorigin @Erdayastronaut @DJSnM @ThePrimalDino Starship fairing will actually have more height than shown here. Dome will be flatter & more of tip is accessible. Usable volume ~1000 cubic meters.”

“SN 5 & 6 at Starship Production Complex in Texas https://t.co/8BVRD5VdU7”

“Starship SN5 just completed full duration static fire. 150m hop soon.”

“@mojosusan @GovStitt @Tesla I love Texas! Starship production complex is in Boca Chica & SpaceX engine development has been in McGregor for almost 18 years.”

“Two Starship tanks in the midbay https://t.co/QJ2V882WOC”

“@YarLP Directionally correct, but Zenit is an order of magnitude smaller than Starship system & doesn’t come back & land”

“Starship Production Complex Boca Chica, Texas https://t.co/pd4ka93bv5”

“@SciGuySpace So many war stories over 18 eventful years! But Starship can make life multiplanetary, which is what really matters for safeguarding the light of consciousness & life as we know it. 100X improvement over Falcon/Dragon.”

“@PPathole Starship is the key to making life multiplanetary & protecting the light of consciousness”

“@flcnhvy @Erdayastronaut @ValkyrieBaron11 @NASASpaceflight Starship + Super Heavy propellant mass is 4800 tons (78% O2 & 22% CH4). I think we can get propellant cost down to ~$100/ton in volume, so ~$500k/flight. With high flight rate, probably below $1.5M fully burdened cost for 150 tons to orbit or ~$10/kg.”

“Starship SN4 passed static fire”

“@Teslarati We’re going to try landing Starship on the moon with enough propellant to return to Earth”

“@SciGuySpace Starship is making good progress”

“@engineers_feed @SpaceX @NASA Great work by SpaceX team & very much appreciate faith in Starship by @NASA!”

“Starship SN4 tank on test stand https://t.co/zN2OmMp1OS”

“@Erdayastronaut @teslaownersSV @NASA SpaceX has a lot of experience berthing & now docking with @Space_Station, which is very difficult. Orbital refilling should in theory be easier, since Starships dock with themselves & will be uncrewed at first.”

“@Erdayastronaut @dwesterster Trying have fewer parts, so strakes are unlikely. Some very counterintuitive CFD results in both hypersonic & subsonic regimes. Starship does controlled falling more than flying.”

“@Erdayastronaut @sivanithu @tobyliiiiiiiiii @cabral_psyd @imatsb @thesheetztweetz @SciGuySpace @Some1gee @RocketLab @Peter_J_Beck Production is by *far* the hard part. That’s why I’m not super worried about early Starship failures. Initial serial numbers are suboptimal, so would be lawn ornaments if they survived. That said, as lawn ornaments go, they’re pretty sweet …”

“@Erdayastronaut @sivanithu @tobyliiiiiiiiii @cabral_psyd @imatsb @thesheetztweetz @SciGuySpace @Some1gee @RocketLab @Peter_J_Beck I have great respect for anyone who gets a rocket to orbit! It’s very hard. I’m spending crazy hours on Starship design/production. It is truly an honor to work with such great engineers. SN4 is almost done 😀”

“Starship fuel header tank https://t.co/CVj8057CY6”

“@C3LT_Games Hopefully, Starship will have enough flight history to substitute for Dragon for NASA missions too”

“Starship SN1 tank preparing for Raptor attachment & static fire https://t.co/jx0ijLrxWx”

“Battle Angel Starship https://t.co/CL4rvBB8mb”

“@flcnhvy @SciGuySpace F9 iteration slowed down as payloads became too important to risk. Little change is expected going forward with F9/FH or Dragon. Starship production & thus iterative improvement will be much faster than Falcon. Driving hard for fully reusable orbital flight this year!”

“@sydney_ev Attach wheels to the landing legs & tow Starship to the launch pad”

“High bay for stacking Starship engine bay, propellant tanks & fairing (fka nosecone) sections is almost done! https://t.co/G9h0430ns2”

“@Erdayastronaut @robert_zubrin Unfortunately, Starship unlikely to survive LEO entry intact without shielding on windward side, but none required on leeward. Even windward shielding is very light.”

“Midsection of Starship propellant tanks https://t.co/Aa8yKPJEFS”

“@JaneidyEve You’re welcome! Was a fun recruiting event. Great to see all the excitement about helping build Starships.”

“Please send your resume to BuildStarship@spacex.com if you’re coming to the Starship career day in Boca Chica tomorrow”

“Starship Concerto in Zero G https://t.co/gkn05I1bvZ”

“Starship career day at the Stargate building (Boca Chica Blvd, TX) this Thursday from 3pm to 9pm!”

“Going max hardcore on design/production Starship here in Boca. It’s awesome! Feels a bit like a Mars simulator.”

“@Erdayastronaut @Blamblas @latimes @SpaceX @blueorigin Exactly. Mars propellant production will combine atmospheric CO2 & water (ice) to make CH4 (methane) & O2. Will do same on Earth long-term. Short-term, each Falcon flight uses roughly same fuel mass as a 747 flight. Falcon is ~71% oxygen & Starship is ~78%, so mostly not fuel.”

“The stars in Starship’s mirrored hull reflected”

“Starship 9m test tank made 7.5 bar at room temp! Small leak at a weld doubler. Will be repaired & retested at cryo. https://t.co/Bz3lrwkYRU”

“@JaneidyEve Yeah, we just finished two more propellant domes. SpaceX team & supporting suppliers are doing amazing work ramping Starship production.”

“@Erdayastronaut Starship design goal is 3 flights/day avg rate, so ~1000 flights/year at >100 tons/flight, so every 10 ships yield 1 megaton per year to orbit”

“@SPEXcast @SciGuySpace What’s amazing is how non-linear the effect of gravity is. Starship can travel by itself from surface of Mars to surface of Earth, but requires massive booster on Earth with orbital refilling to get to Mars, which is ~38% of Earth gravity.”

“Starship orbital vehicle SN1, liquid oxygen header tank & nosecone https://t.co/IaSEdIyZgP”

“@Alejandro_DebH @macshlibber @SpaceflightNow Advancing humanity’s understanding of the Universe is a fundamental motivator for SpaceX! Starship can put giant 🔭 in orbit & on moon. With an occluder, could image 🌏 in other star systems.”

“@RQuiddich Every tank under pressure is a balloon tank — it’s just question of degree. Starship tanks are not balloon tanks like Atlas in sense that they don’t collapse when depressurized on the ground.”

“@Kristennetten @SmileSimplify @Erdayastronaut We’re focusing on Boca right now for Starship & Cape is focused on Falcon/Dragon”

“Almost three now. Boca team is crushing it! Starship has giant dome 🤣🤣 https://t.co/qTN2TU02pb”