“@Erdayastronaut @SpaceX Turbopump propellant flow path to achieve high chamber pressure is quite tricky. Requires an inducer & 2 impellers with ~100,000 shaft horsepower.”
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“@BPSYT1 @Erdayastronaut @SpaceX Hopefully in about 10 days”
“@Erdayastronaut @SpaceX Physics favors full flow”
“@PunishedFranc83 @SpaceXStarlink @SpaceX Easy to turn one of our Starlink satellites into a debris collector”
“@PunishedFranc83 @SpaceXStarlink @SpaceX Yes”
“Starlink mission will be heaviest @SpaceX payload ever at 18.5 tons. If all goes well, each launch of 60 satellites will generate more power than Space Station & deliver 1 terabit of bandwidth to Earth.”
“@NASASpaceflight SpaceX is doing simultaneous competing builds of Starship in Boca Chica Texas & Cape Canaveral Florida”
“@PPathole @SpaceX It is flat-packed. No dispenser.”
“First 60 @SpaceX Starlink satellites loaded into Falcon fairing. Tight fit. https://t.co/gZq8gHg9uK”
“@Dystopian_Blues @blueorigin @SpaceX @JeffBezos But putting the word “Blue” on a ball is questionable branding”
“@_TomCross_ @Teslarati @SpaceX @13ericralph31 One of the biggest reusability improvements was fast leg stow. Version 1 sometimes took days.”
“@Rawasen_ SpaceX needs to demonstrate more progress with Starship, but that will hopefully happen rapidly”
“@Erdayastronaut @StevenHardison @lrocket Tom is still an advisor to SpaceX, but semi-retired about 5 years ago & doesn’t work on Raptor. Will Heltsley heads propulsion overall, but Raptor is a team effort. No single leader.”
“♥️🚀💫 SpaceX team 💫🚀♥️”
“Thanks on behalf of @SpaceX team! We ♥️♥️♥️ @NASA!”
“@NASAGoddard @SpaceX .@SpaceX team would be so honored to fly this for @NASA!”
“@SpaceX Upper atmospheric wind shear is very high. Will have to postpone launch unless weather improves soon.”
“@nextspaceflight @Erdayastronaut @DiscoverMag Yes. Sensitive propulsion & avionics remained dry. Great work by SpaceX Dragon engineering team. Major improvement over Dragon 1.”
“@Drew78823936 @Erdayastronaut @DJSnM @RocketTenor @NASA @SpaceX @Space_Station @Commercial_Crew Probably right. Starship rate of progress far exceeds Falcon & Dragon, although they’re critical to getting there. dInnovation/dt is what matters long-term.”
“@DJSnM @RocketTenor @NASA @SpaceX @Space_Station @Commercial_Crew For cargo missions, propulsive land landing should be no problem. Doesn’t have same safety criticality as crew.”
“@dmk184 @NASA @SpaceX @Space_Station @Commercial_Crew Pretty much any moon or planet that has a solid or liquid surface”
“@iamkostmos @NASA @SpaceX @Space_Station @Commercial_Crew Most likely, but this is contingent upon NASA review & approval”
“@xandriteme @NASA @SpaceX @Space_Station @Commercial_Crew Best to use a giant brake pad, aka heat shield”
“@ajithshan03 @NASA @SpaceX @Space_Station @Commercial_Crew No”
“@NASA @SpaceX @Space_Station @Commercial_Crew Dragon 2 was designed to land using thrusters, with parachutes as backup. Switched to chutes as primary, due to difficulty of proving safety, but Dragon can still do it. https://t.co/Mr7VFIQwWf https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=07Pm8ZY0XJI”
“@roscosmos @Rogozin @JimBridenstine Thank you on behalf of SpaceX! We have always admired your rocket/spacecraft technology.”
“@BarackObama @NASA @SpaceX @Commercial_Crew Thank you on behalf of the people of SpaceX!”
“SpaceX team in Hawthorne control, Dragon docked to Station above https://t.co/JUWkOrWjsH”
“SpaceX Crew Dragon has docked with International @Space_Station https://t.co/CccsItLLvJ”
“@BoeingCEO @SpaceX @Commercial_Crew @NASA @Space_Station Thank you. May you have good luck and godspeed with your spacecraft!”
“@realDonaldTrump Thank you on behalf of SpaceX. Also, thank you to @NASA, without whom this would not be possible.”
“@VP @POTUS @NASA @SpaceX Thank you on behalf of the many people of SpaceX”
“@fhurst4762 @SpaceX @Space_Station Lightning bolt right before launch”
“@raulv48 @bryanMackSC @Tesla Need to get back to SpaceX launch control. Sorry this solution isn’t perfect.”
“@MihaRekar @SpaceX Haha”
“@NASASpaceflight @flcnhvy @rogiermaas @SpaceX Yes”
“@katlinegrey @lrocket @Alexis_wwww Rest of SpaceX propulsion still very active, so only ~50 full-time equivalent people right now. That will grow a lot as we enter production. It’s 10X harder (at least) to design engine production system than engine. In automotive, 100X harder.”
“@lrocket @Alexis_wwww @katlinegrey Tom did an awesome job leading Merlin, Kestrel, Draco & other engine developments from start through 2014 that were critical to SpaceX’s success. Great respect & appreciation!”
“@flcnhvy @rogiermaas @SpaceX Focusing on Starship instead”
“@rogiermaas @SpaceX Deorbits & burns up over the Pacific”
“@katlinegrey SpaceX commercial 🚀 launch market share went from 0% in 2010 to 65% in 2018. Despite massive subsidies to Boeing/Lockeed, they have never won a fair competition against SpaceX for several years. https://t.co/sqAYCCcJtd”
“@fan_of_racing @bkent136 @macodiseas @katlinegrey SpaceX Merlin architecture is simpler than staged combustion (eg SSME or RD), but it has world record for thrust/weight & thrust/cost engine. Raptor has better Isp, but I’m worried it may fall short on those two critical metrics.”
“@katlinegrey I have been chief engineer/designer at SpaceX from day 1. Had I been better, our first 3 launches might have succeeded, but I learned from those mistakes. https://t.co/3r6ZqEc30A https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/07/as-the-spacex-steamroller-surges-european-rocket-industry-vows-to-resist/3/”
“@FredericLambert @georgezachary I had to focus on solving a painfully large number of engineering & manufacturing problems at Tesla (especially) & SpaceX”
“SpaceX foundry casting Raptor engine manifold out of Inconel https://t.co/zWlqNwGj0R”
“@Erdayastronaut @John_Gardi @w0lfyxD @Robotbeat @SpaceX Yeah, but simpler. Needed for landing burn or engines will suck in a bubble.”
“@John_Gardi @w0lfyxD @Robotbeat @SpaceX Starship & Super Heavy will press tanks autogenously even in version 1. Very important, as helium costs more than oxygen on Falcon, even though liquid oxygen is 2/3 vehicle mass & helium weighs basically nothing.”
“@John_Gardi @w0lfyxD @Robotbeat @SpaceX True”
“@AstrumMining @SPEXcast @McMurchie @Robotbeat @John_Gardi @SpaceX Moon first, Mars as soon as the planets align”
“@SPEXcast @ikrbkv @MARINAVALOVA2 @alexmd2 @SpaceX On my bedside table”
