“@patrickc I thought SpaceX and Tesla both had >90% chance of failure, but worth trying anyway”
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“Congrats @SpaceX team!”
“@RepThomasMassie @SpaceX You’re welcome!”
“SpaceX has moved its state of incorporation from Delaware to Texas! If your company is still incorporated in Delaware, I recommend moving to another state as soon as possible. https://t.co/B7FLByL2dY”
“A number of false news reports claim that SpaceX is selling Starlink terminals to Russia. This is categorically false. To the best of our knowledge, no Starlinks have been sold directly or indirectly to Russia.”
“@imPenny2x @rookisaacman @SpaceX Jared rocks”
“@krassenstein @SpaceX Starship should be able to make it to the moon in less than 5 years”
“This year, the @SpaceX Dragon spaceship will take astronauts the furthest they’ve been from Earth in over half a century”
“@teslaownersSV First, no one has ever mentioned rehab to me ever. Second, if they are saying that I was able to lead Tesla to be by far the most valuable carmaker and SpaceX to be by far the most valuable space company *simultaneously*, that is the greatest compliment I have ever received!”
“Congrats to the @SpaceX team for the first time completing 10 rocket launches & landings in a single month!”
“@WR4NYGov My estimate of the probability of success at the beginning of both Tesla and SpaceX was less than 10%. The reason people telling me we would probably fail didn’t dissuade me was that I already agreed with them!”
“@SawyerMerritt @SpaceX It will be great”
“SpaceX is focused on making Starlink great for gaming & streaming!”
“@SawyerMerritt @SpaceX This will be great for farmers”
“Highlights of the @SpaceX company talk”
“Review of SpaceX achievements in 2023 and plans for 2024+”
“@SawyerMerritt @SpaceX I and all employees of SpaceX passed random drug testing for years. NASA received all those results.”
“It was a great year for @SpaceX!”
“@SpaceX Pretty much everything I predicted in that talk has happened or is in process of happening”
“@WhatsupFranks … while simultaneously leading Tesla to be the world’s most valuable car company (Model Y is the selling vehicle on Earth) and SpaceX to be the world’s most valuable space company (~80% of all payload to orbit last year). Whatever I’m doing, I should obviously keep doing it!”
“@teslaownersSV @SpaceX Wow, 13 years ago”
“@WR4NYGov SpaceX doesn’t even file patents (except to block trolls), so there is nothing to stop them from copying Falcon 9!”
“@SciGuySpace Great work by the @SpaceX team!”
“@davewolfusa @Tesla @SpaceX Exactly”
“@jeffskoll @SpaceX @Starlink Thanks Jeff, my old friend!”
“Next week, I will do a company talk for SpaceX, followed later by a company talk for Tesla after the 10K. I will recap the talented team’s amazing accomplishments of 2023 and describe exciting plans for 2024 and beyond! These will be posted publicly to @SpaceX and @Tesla.”
“@FutureJurvetson @SpaceX And, if all goes well, SpaceX’s total launch mass to orbit will increase ~50% next year, not including Starship”
“Congrats to the SpaceX team on achieving 96 launches in 2023!”
“@4n4lisis SpaceX and Tesla have noticed a meaningful degradation in the capability of US college graduates over the past several years”
“SpaceX is tracking to launch over 80% of all Earth payload to orbit this year https://t.co/DMf5tpG0kI”
“Congrats to the @SpaceX team on the 250th landing of a Falcon rocket https://t.co/U3KoKGmUOm”
“@SawyerMerritt SpaceX launches competitor satellite systems without favor to its own satellites. Fair and square.”
“SpaceX Falcon rocket just launched https://t.co/BKonw79GBw https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OyKAWXNpQaJb”
“@SawyerMerritt @SpaceX Big if true 😂”
“@johnkrausphotos @SpaceX Starship Flight 3 hardware should be ready to fly in 3 to 4 weeks. There are three ships in final production in the high bay (as can be seen from the highway).”
“@smmmmss2 SpaceX engineering, manufacturing & launch teams did amazing work”
“Just inspected the Starship launch pad and it is in great condition! No refurbishment needed to the water-cooled steel plate for next launch. Congrats to @Spacex team & contractors for engineering & building such a robust system so rapidly! https://t.co/py5m1uhtEi”
“Congratulations team @SpaceX team!”
“@ashleevance @SpaceX Cool”
“SpaceX launches every 3 days from the Cape in Florida, next year every 2 days”
“Adding a @SpaceX crew arm for @NASA astronauts at launch pad 40 https://t.co/rQeQiBdE79”
“@Erdayastronaut @SpaceX We can improve the latency for real-time video on 𝕏. It should be as fast as your connection will allow.”
“Excited to announce that @SpaceX @Starlink has achieved breakeven cash flow! Excellent work by a great team. Starlink is also now a majority of all active satellites and will have launched a a majority of all satellites cumulatively from Earth by next year.”
“@SawyerMerritt Competing with SpaceX is tough”
“@DrLoupis No terminals from Gaza have attempted to communicate with our constellation. SpaceX will support communication links with internationally recognized aid organizations.”
“SpaceX launching Falcon9 https://t.co/nqMwMtUrHa https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1RDxllVDyZgxL?t=4m58s”
“@KenKirtland17 SpaceX is an anomaly in the matrix”
“@NASA @SpaceX @NASAKennedy I love @NASA!”
“@NASA @SpaceX @NASAKennedy Congratulations!”
“Congrats to @NASA & @SpaceX teams for successfully launching the Psyche probe to interplanetary transfer orbit!”
