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.
“@Erdayastronaut @SpaceX @Blackmagic_News @andrutay @bstineman @SpacePadreIsle @considercosmos Standing down SN11 until probably Monday. Additional checkouts are needed. Doing our best to land & fully recover.”
“@flcnhvy @arstechnica @SciGuySpace SpaceX will be landing Starships on Mars well before 2030. The really hard threshold is making Mars Base Alpha self-sustaining.”
“@TheMarsSociety SpaceX is developing rockets needed to make life multiplanetary — full & rapid reusability at large scale. Even if SpaceX fails in that goal, the rockets will still be most advanced on Earth. Starlink‘s purpose is to provide Internet to the least served & to pay for Mars.”
“@Rjdlandscapes @Erdayastronaut @SpaceX That’s our goal”
“@Erdayastronaut @SpaceX cgi irl”
“@SciGuySpace SpaceX did 2X rest of world payload to orbit last year, probably 3X to 4X this year”
“@____AMiR__ @SpaceX We will support as best we can”
“@SpaceX Fly my pretties, fly …”
“@ErcXspace @SpaceX @NASASpaceflight @Erdayastronaut Transparent aluminum (ALON) might be cool”
“@TrevorMahlmann @SpacePadreIsle Celebrating a year of great work by the SpaceX team!”
“@PPathole @arstechnica @SciGuySpace If 2021 manifest is met, SpaceX will do ~75% of total Earth payload to orbit with Falcon. A single Starship is designed to do in a day what all rockets on Earth currently do in a year. Even so, ~1000 Starships will take ~20 years to build a self-sustaining city on Mars.”
“@arstechnica @SciGuySpace Falcon 9 is almost always at max capacity. When it has “spare” performance, it flies back to land, which costs much less than using a droneship. Our fundamental constraint is mass to orbit per unit time. Last year, SpaceX launched roughly double payload mass of rest of world.”
“@Jason cgi irl @spacex”
“@PPathole @SpaceX SpaceX team is doing great work! One day, the true measure of success will be that Starship flights are commonplace.”
“@Erdayastronaut @SpaceX RIP SN10, honorable discharge”
“@LabPadre @SpaceX You’re welcome”
“@Adamklotz_ @SpaceX Space”
“@Teslarati SpaceX in south Texas & Tesla in central have been providing direct assistance where feasible (eg save cold turtles & help power the water treatment plant). Please let us know if we may be helpful in other ways.”
“@BrennanChant @SpaceX Yeah. Active fairing half recovered though.”
“@rockstardenied @SpaceX SpaceX Boca team is helping save the turtles”
“@RationalEtienne @Adamklotz_ SpaceX needs to pass through a deep chasm of negative cash flow over the next year or so to make Starlink financially viable. Every new satellite constellation in history has gone bankrupt. We hope to be the first that does not.”
“@astro_g_dogg @SpaceX Yup”
“Time to tell the story of Tesla & SpaceX”
“@Adamklotz_ @Erdayastronaut @josh_bickett @ajtourville @SpaceX Will still use hot gas maneuvering (RCS) thrusters, as ~5X more efficient than nitrogen (300 sec vs 60 sec Isp)”
“@Erdayastronaut @josh_bickett @ajtourville @SpaceX Higher Isp too”
“@Erdayastronaut @josh_bickett @ajtourville @SpaceX Intuitively, it would seem so, but turbopump-fed Raptors have much higher thrust & propellant mass fraction than pressure-fed gas thrusters & they’re already there”
“@josh_bickett @ajtourville @Erdayastronaut @SpaceX Yeah. By default, engine with least lever arm would shut down if all 3 are good.”
“@ajtourville @Erdayastronaut @SpaceX Yes, but engines have a min throttle point where there is flameout risk, so landing on 3 engines means high thrust/weight (further away from hover point), which is also risky”
“@Adamklotz_ @Erdayastronaut @SpaceX Yes”
“@Erdayastronaut @SpaceX It was foolish of us not to start 3 engines & immediately shut down 1, as 2 are needed to land”
“@Erdayastronaut @TJ_Cooney @lrocket @SpaceX @FelixSchlang @MarcusHouseGame Tom has some great stories about experimenting with premixed O2/CH4 before SpaceX. That is not recommended haha.”
“@Erdayastronaut @TJ_Cooney @lrocket @SpaceX @FelixSchlang @MarcusHouseGame He became a big fan of methane, but was not pushing it initially. That came from me reading about Soviet methane engine tests that got over 380 Isp. At that Isp, a subcooled methane stage gets slightly better delta-V than a hydrogen stage.”
“@TJ_Cooney @lrocket @SpaceX @FelixSchlang @MarcusHouseGame That sounds correct. Tom certainly deserves a lot of credit for his excellent work on those engines! Dean Ono too for Kestrel & Draco.”
“@TJ_Cooney @lrocket @SpaceX @FelixSchlang @MarcusHouseGame Tom is great & was instrumental in developing early versions of Merlin & Kestrel, but not later versions of Merlin or Starship/Raptor”
“@YounesH1989 I never used this guy. He gave a talk at SpaceX once.”
“@Carnage4Life I sure hope that’s not true at Tesla or SpaceX!”
“@JohnnaCrider1 @Iupsychdoctor @AOC @RobinhoodApp Shopify is great too. SpaceX used them.”
“@TrevorMahlmann @SpaceX Major esthetics improvements coming”
“@PPathole @SpaceX Lasers”
“@Kristennetten @SpaceX @EliBurton_ @EvaFoxU @JaneidyEve @austinbarnard45 @ElonsBrain @JasoN7Patterson @AstroJordy @RenataKonkoly Pretty much”
“@ElonsWorld @Tesla @SpaceX @neuralink @boringcompany @EashanMisra That would probably mean civilization is doing great, although depends on assumptions for inflation haha”
“@PPathole @johnkrausphotos @SpaceX Two of the engines need slight repairs, so will be switched out”
“@johnkrausphotos @SpaceX Nice shot”
“@justpaulinelol @Erdayastronaut @SpaceX Wow, a lot has happened in 10 years!”
“Today at SpaceX is about practicing Starship engine starts. Ship is held down by massive pins while engines are fired. Two starts completed, about to try a third.”
“@SpaceX @Space_Station One day, we will get a camera up there that also shows the star field in the background”
“@Erdayastronaut @SpaceX Was also thinking that SpaceX Boca should hold fun parties and give tours for the community from time to time”
“@Erdayastronaut @SpaceX I super support public spaces around our production & launch sites, wherever it can be done safely and securely. When covid passes, we will open up our restaurant to the public & figure out ways to allow limited access to the High Bar.”
“@Christo49699922 @sean18743005 @Erdayastronaut @SpaceX That too”
“@Erdayastronaut @SpaceX That’s actually our restaurant, but SpaceX is building a futuristic bar at the top of the high bay with 360 degree windows & a glass floor looking down on the rocket factory”
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