The tweet archive.

“@realRickyReeves @Erdayastronaut @NASA Crew Dragon is capable of propulsive landing, but would require extensive testing to prove safety. Better to focus on Starship.”

“@JaneidyEve We’re now building flight design of Starship SN1, but each SN will have at least minor improvements, at least through SN20 or so of Starship V1.0.”

“Was up all night with SpaceX team working on Starship tank dome production (most difficult part of primary structure). Dawn arrives … https://t.co/SzyDSYUYOu”

“@justpaulinelol Maybe on Starship? It’s def got the payload capacity …”

“@flcnhvy Starship steel decision came first. We were going to use titanium skins for Cybertruck, but cold-rolled 30X stainless is much stronger.”

“@Malcolmmarsman @flcnhvy No problem. We could program Starship to perform Swan Lake in the sky. Minimizing landing burn propellant mass is what’s hard.”

“@flcnhvy If we build as many Starships as Falcons, so ~100 vehicles & each does 100 tons to orbit, that’s a capacity of 10 million tons of payload to orbit per year”

“@flcnhvy Payload to orbit per year of Starship fleet is most mind-blowing metric, as it’s designed to fly 3X per day, which is ~1000X per year”

“@TJ_Cooney That said, most Starship spaceports will probably need to be ~20 miles / 30km offshore for acceptable noise levels, especially for frequent daily flights, as would occur for point to point flights on Earth”

“@TJ_Cooney Wow, 2011 seems like eons ago! With fairing recovery, Falcon is ~80% reusable, but reflight takes several days & requires boats. Starship will be fully reusable with booster reflight possible every few hours & ship reflight every 8 hours. No boats needed.”

“@HarryStoltz1 @neiltyson @Space_Station Big challenge for Starship refueling on the moon is finding sources of carbon. Probably some pretty big deposits in craters from meteorites. Same goes for hydrogen & oxygen, also in (shadowed) craters.”

“@Erdayastronaut Depends on total system efficiency & how long the propellant plant can run to refill Starship, so 1 to 10MW as a rough guess”

“Inside Starship cargo bay. Header tanks mounted in tip of nosecone to offset engine weight at rear. https://t.co/EJSwqMCooA”

“Starship will allow us to inhabit other worlds”

“Starship halves being joined https://t.co/7pdxfh8e81”

“Three Raptors on a Starship https://t.co/UrRiD62EVk”

“@annerajb @Jennerator211 @Erdayastronaut With rare exceptions, composites would make Starship heavier. They don’t stand up well to high temperatures, but steel does great.”

“Lifting lower section of Starship https://t.co/bfW17i469a”

“@DJSnM Exactly. For reusable heatshield, minimize peak heating. For ablative/expendable, minimize total heat. Therefore reusable like Starship wants lift during high Mach reentry for lower peak, but higher total heat.”

“Bottom half of Starship at night. Top half with forward fins & header tanks probably stacks on Wednesday. Three Raptors already installed. https://t.co/haq3m1V1Wm”

“Just leaving SpaceX Starship build site in Boca https://t.co/Bqt40mSdX4”

“Adding the rear moving fins to Starship Mk1 in Boca Chica, Texas https://t.co/HWLihqihph”

“@flcnhvy @austinbarnard45 🚀♥️ Starship Team ♥️🚀”

“Getting ready for flight of orbit-class Starship design”

“@DJSnM @Erdayastronaut @KevinKling12 @spaceXcentric Not currently planning for pad abort with early Starships, but maybe we should. Vac engines would be dual bell & fixed (no gimbal), which means we can stabilize nozzle against hull.”

“@JaneidyEve @flcnhvy @Freiraum77 @SpaceX Aiming for 20km flight in Oct & orbit attempt shortly thereafter. Starship update will be on Sept 28th, anniversary of SpaceX reaching orbit. Starship Mk 1 will be fully assembled by that time.”

“One day Starship will land on the rusty sands of Mars https://t.co/EfENYVdOzM”

“@JaneidyEve Will probably make sense to do this when Starship Mk 1 has 3 Raptors, moving body fins & landing gear installed, which is hopefully mid September”

“@Erdayastronaut @SpaceX Thanks. Starship, which aspires to be fully & immediately reusable in super heavy class, is a truly 🥜🚀. Even though I’m immersed in Starship/Raptor design & build 7 days/week, it still doesn’t feel real.”

“@Teslarati Wouldn’t read too much into this. Likely to be fewer F9/FH flights, but possibly an order of magnitude more than these numbers in Starship flights.”

“@HarryStoltz1 @ShorealoneFilms Details coming at Starship update”

“Great progress by Starship Cape team. Started several months behind, but catching up fast. This will be a super fun race to orbit, moon & Mars!”

“Headed to Starship Cape Canaveral build site today”

“@SciGuySpace Yes, detailed review of the first orbital Starship, explaining the pros & cons of each design decision”

“@JaneidyEve @justpaulinelol @EvaFoxU @SpaceX Very convincing! Ok, Boca it is. We should have Starship Mk1 with 3 Raptors almost ready to fly by then.”

“Now that Hopper has flown, Starship update probably in two weeks or so.”

“@Erdayastronaut @goathobbit Testing a possible Starship windward side ceramic tile. Maximizing emissivity is best for conductive/particle heating. Nice thing about steel is that tiles can be very thin, unlike carbon fiber or aluminum airframe.”

“@justpaulinelol @annerajb @highlyaaronic Probably have slots for up to 37 engines, but can decontent as needed. Starship update after Hopper hover.”

“@annerajb @highlyaaronic Orbital refilling is critical for high payload to moon or Mars. Initially just Starship to Starship, later dedicated tankers.”

“Starship Super Heavy with 35 Raptors”

“@Falcon9Block5 @Alejandro_DebH @annerajb Won’t change. Starship launch structure will be attached to the other side from tower.”

“@Alejandro_DebH @annerajb Starship launch structure is being built off-site in steel subsections”

“@annerajb Texas and Florida Starship prototypes (not Hopper) fly in 2 to 3 months”

“~20m up & sideways for first flight. Mk1 Starship hopefully 20km up in a few months.”

“@C3LT_Games The Cape is one of the two Starship build sites. More on this later.”

“@mayemusk @SpaceX Starship Mk 1 & Hopper”

“@tossha_spb @atlasobscura Will do Starship presentation a few weeks after Hopper hovers, so prob late July. If that timing works, free LJ chips for all present!”

“@SpaceXFan97 @lister6520 @justpaulinelol @MattLBates @Erdayastronaut Almost anything. Length/diameter is much lower & Starship doesn’t have a hammerhead fairing that acts like main sail.”

“@lister6520 @justpaulinelol @MattLBates @Erdayastronaut You’re touching on a good critique of Falcon 9. Our 1st stage to 2nd stage propellant ratio is too high. We’re fixing that with Starship.”

“@Matthew_Nolan1 @austinbarnard45 Starship will do orbital launches from Boca Chica (near Brownsville) & Cape”