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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.
“@ashleevance Hardly anyone knows that there was a massive effort to block SpaceX from providing astronaut transport for NASA”
“@ajtourville @SpaceX This will be cool”
“@SawyerMerritt @SpaceX Cool”
“First SpaceX spacewalk mission launches in a week. This will be epic.”
“@ajtourville @friedberg @Boeing @SpaceX Accurate”
“@SpaceX CNBC are such liars”
“@SpaceX CNBC sucks”
“@SawyerMerritt @SpaceX Cool”
“@FutureJurvetson @SpaceX Indeed. It is not widely understood that SpaceX has the most advanced 3D metal printing technology in the world.”
“@SpaceX In a few years, we will finally have a Raptor 3/4 vacuum version (giant nozzle) that has an Isp of 380”
“@SpaceX Important to note that the induced mass (mass required by a given engine design that is not the engine itself) of Raptor 3, while far better than Raptor 2, still has a lot of room for improvement. Thrust will exceed 300 tons with Raptor 3.x (thrust/mass>200), enabling 10,000…”
“@RepTroyNehls @SpaceX @X @RepPatFallon @JudgeCarter Thanks :)”
“@EPavlic @SpaceX @teslaownersSV @DJpowers69 @NASAMars @TheMarsSociety @WholeMarsBlog @DimaZeniuk @AIXBird @Rainmaker1973 @StarshipGazer We will be there one day”
“@HSajwanization @SpaceX @Starlink Thanks”
“@sara_spangelo @SpaceX Rapidly reaching enough direct to cell satellites for continuous coverage at highly populated latitudes”
“Congrats to the @SpaceX Falcon team on completing 3 successful launches this weekend!”
“@SpaceX @Starlink Back in the saddle!”
“@FischerKing64 I literally have zero interests Russia. Tesla has no operations there, SpaceX directly competes with Russia for space launch and Starlink is a key asset of Ukraine. Sam Harris is a pompous hypocrite (writes book about how lying is terrible and then advocates lying to keep Trump…”
“@jhall @SpaceX @Starlink Insane government waste of taxpayer dollars!”
“@ajtourville @SpaceX This will be a very dramatic event. Sky full of shooting stars, albeit over an empty region of the Pacific (but we will still get great video).”
“Check out the new SpaceX EVA spacesuits. These will allow astronauts to do spacewalks.”
“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.”
“@SpaceX Shooting stars”
“@SpaceX We’re updating satellite software to run the ion thrusters at their equivalent of warp 9. Unlike a Star Trek episode, this will probably not work, but it’s worth a shot. The satellite thrusters need to raise orbit faster than atmospheric drag pulls them down or they burn up.”
“@RichardHanania Best to hear it in the words I have used in many interviews over the years. I have not fwiw “volunteered my sperm” 😂 No one at SpaceX has been directed to work on a Mars city. When people have asked to do so, I’ve said we need to focus on getting there first.”
“@SpaceActivist88 @JeffGreason @peterrhague @SpaceNotJohn SpaceX will colonize Mars. The fundamental question is whether Earth civilization can maintain its technology level long enough for the colony to grow on its own, even if the supply ships stop coming. If yes, then humanity will pass the single-planet Fermi Great Filter.”
“@elon_docs There were no cases of successful privately-funded rocket companies at the start of SpaceX and the last truly successful car company startup was Chrysler, about a century ago”
“@roelofbotha @SpaceX @Starlink Hope you like it”
“@LMSpace @SpaceX You’re most welcome”
“@SawyerMerritt An obviously disingenuous response. Not cool of them to try (for the third time) to impede SpaceX’s progress by lawfare.”
“@JTLonsdale @JeffBezos In past years, Blue Origin also sued to stop SpaceX from using what is now our primary launchpad at 39A and tried to patent landing a rocket on a ship, even though that idea had been around for 70 years!”
“@Erdayastronaut @Teslaconomics @SpaceX We could build a lot more, but the next version of Raptor is really the one to scale up production. We begin testing it in McGregor within a week or so. Regenerative cooling and secondary flow paths have been made integral to the whole engine, thus no heat shield is required.…”
“@spacesudoer That was not the founding of SpaceX. We were in Russia to negotiate buying some ICBMs and converting them to launch a philanthropic mission to Mars. I later came to realize that the problem wasn’t the will to go to Mars – there is plenty of public interest – but rather that…”
“@Cmdr_Hadfield @SpaceX Yup”
“@seeMOUSErun @SpaceX Full and immediate reusability of an orbital rocket is the fundamental break through needed to become a multi planet species and a true spacefaring civilization”
“@InfographicTony @SpaceX Pretty accurate”
“@Cmdr_Hadfield @SpaceX Thanks Chris! A fully and immediately reusable orbital heat shield, which (as you know) has never been made before, is the single toughest problem remaining. Being able to iterate with many ideas on many ships is key to solving this.”
“@Kristennetten @SpaceX I think we should try to catch the booster with the mechazilla arms next flight!”
“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!!”
“The @SpaceX Starship launch tomorrow morning will be live-streamed exclusively on 𝕏!”
“Great work by the SpaceX Falcon team launching 14 times in a single month!”
“@Rothmus Over time, SpaceX will enable anyone to go to space and travel to the moon and Mars”
“@buildingMadrid We don’t use patents, except to block patent trolls, so others are free to copy us. SpaceX is building the technology to extend consciousness beyond Earth, so the cost per ton to orbit & beyond must necessarily be low enough to accomplish that goal.”
“@astro_greek Designing the Model S in the SpaceX rocket factory”
“@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…”
“@GavinSBaker Exactly. SpaceX is spending significant resources combating Russian jamming efforts. This is a tough problem. They have succeeded in shutting down every communications system, except Starlink.”
“@MarioNawfal SpaceX has no need for additional capital and will actually be buying back shares. We do liquidity rounds for employees and investors every ~6 months.”
“Congratulations to the @SpaceX team on passing 3 million customers in 99 countries! And thanks to you for buying @Starlink!”
“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.”
