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“@DJSnM @ThePrimalDino Center core moving too fast return. Falcon Heavy is a 3 (or 2.5) stage rocket, but full & rapid reusability on Earth demand a 2 stage rocket. 1st stage returns to launch site immediately via boostback & 2nd stage orbits until ground track passes back over launch site to return.”
“All four orbital launch pads fully loaded with rockets for the first time!”
“@Arianespace Sorry to hear this. It is a sobering reminder of the difficulty of orbital space flight.”
“Congrats to SpaceX Team on 3 perfect orbital launches within 36 hours!!!”
“@SciGuySpace Tonnage to orbit is the better metric”
“@NASASpaceflight Next test is ~20 sec firing with max oxygen fill to test autogenous pressurization, possibly one more static fire, then orbital launch attempt”
“Falcon rockets to orbit as seen from LA https://t.co/r8L2SbLC3p”
“@Teslarati @13ericralph31 SpaceX has more active satellites in orbit than rest of Earth combined, tracking to double rest of Earth soon”
“@skorusARK Satellite constellation capability comes down to tonnage to orbit per year times capability per ton”
“Another batch of Starlinks in orbit, 7 hours after the astronaut launch”
“@BryceSpaceTech @SpaceX SpaceX now delivering about twice as much payload to orbit as rest of world combined”
“@MuskUniversity Fully reusable orbital rockets are the fundamental breakthrough needed for humanity to become a multiplanet species”
“@yasin_shafiei @thejackbeyer @NASASpaceflight @BocaChicaGal @NicAnsuini Late next month maybe, but November seems highly likely. We will have two boosters & ships ready for orbital flight by then, with full stack production at roughly one every two months.”
“@SpaceX Another batch with lasers reaches orbit”
“@NewsfromScience @ScienceVisuals Starship will be an incredible enabler for science. Full reusability & high production rate drive several orders of magnitude improvement in $/kg to orbit & beyond. Next gen Starlink constellation is primary user of this rocket, so science doesn’t need to cover fixed cost.”
“Falcon arching to orbit https://t.co/m7grug8FV9”
“@CSI_Starbase Yup, there’s a reason we do static fires! Much better to break things on the ground than en route to orbit.”
“@SpaceX More Starlinks reach orbit”
“@RenataKonkoly @Kristennetten @culturaltutor The swoop of the X is meant to represent the rocket’s arc to orbit”
“Squeezing extra performance out of Falcon 9 – almost at 17 metric tons to an actual useful orbit with booster & fairing reusable!”
“@slashdot Getting to orbit & back is harder than it may seem”
“2 main goals this year: - Starship to orbit - FSD wide release Many other things, of course, but those are the 2 giant kahunas. Will require insane work by many super talented people, but, if anyone can do it, they can. It is an honor to work with such awesome human beings.”
“Another orbital plane of polar satellites”
“@SirineAti A *successful* orbital flight is probably between 1 and 12 months from now”
“@SawyerMerritt @SpaceX It’s a start. About 1000 times more mass to orbit per year will be needed to make life multiplanetary.”
“@SpaceX @Space_Station About twice as much useful mass to orbit as rest of Earth combined”
“@SciGuySpace Cumulative tonnage to orbit this year is the right metric”
“@waitbutwhy I wonder if there is a species in the Magellanic Clouds wondering who lives in the big galaxy they orbit”
“@BillyM2k The only thing keeping the other orbital rocket programs alive is government protection or they’d be deader than a doornail and everyone knows it. But oh well … comme ci, comme ça.”
“@BillyM2k The super weird thing is that Falcon 9 is still the only orbital booster to land or refly after all these years!”
“@teslaownersSV @PPathole @breezefps The Bay Area is already saturated with user terminals, which is why wait time for a terminal is long. Rush hour speeds will improve as more satellites reach operational orbits, with a giant improvement with V2 sats. Note, speeds outside of rush hour times should be very high.”
“@PPathole @Rainmaker1973 The amazing part will be having an orbital rocket that is fully & rapidly reusable with any payload at all! Everyone else gave up when they realized that their fully reusable payload<0. We still have a long way to go.”
“@Erdayastronaut Only a few weeks away. All Raptor 2 engines needed for first orbital flight are complete & being installed.”
“@PPathole @jack Still early stages on that. Getting Starship reliably to orbit, then achieving full & immediate reusability of both stages is by far top priority.”
“@S3XYstarship @ACTBrigitte He’s fine, I guess. Does seem like he’s spending a lot of time in the hot tub these days. If he wants to get to orbit, less partying and more work would be advisable.”
“Netflix documentary about returning astronauts to orbit after Space Shuttle program ended https://t.co/9mksmbiiPx https://www.netflix.com/title/81111324?source=35”
“Another batch of Starlinks reach orbit”
“@Rainmaker1973 True. And even a 10% reduction in g would make reaching orbit relatively easy.”
“@thesheetztweetz @QuiltyAnalytics First Starship orbital flight will be with Raptor 2 engines, as they are much more capable & reliable. 230 ton or ~500k lb thrust at sea level. We’ll have 39 flightworthy engines built by next month, then another month to integrate, so hopefully May for orbital flight test.”
“@thesheetztweetz @QuiltyAnalytics SpaceX default plan was ~65% of global launch mass to orbit this year. Incremental demand might take that to ~70%, so not a major change. Those numbers don’t count Starship. Rough math is ~16 tons * 50 launches = 800 tons. Rest of world is <400 tons (mostly China).”
“@PPathole @SpaceX Optimized, fully-reusable Starship is ~150t to same reference orbit as Saturn V. In expendable mode, Starship payload would be 250t to 300t.”
“Another 48 Starlinks just reached orbit”
“@ID_AA_Carmack SpaceX’s goal is to make life multiplanetary, whereas their goal is to put a handful of satellites in orbit”
“@SirineAti Starship is in a different league. Orders of magnitude more mass to orbit than Falcon. Necessary for creating a self-sustaining city on Mars.”
“If things go well, Falcon will launch about once a week on average in 2022, delivering ~2/3 of all Earth payload to orbit”
“@SpaceX Another 49 Starlinks reach orbit”
“1469 Starlink satellites active 272 moving to operational orbits Laser links activate soon”
“Starlinks with “lasers” deployed to orbit https://t.co/Y1eg9gl7sJ”
“@Rainmaker1973 Tonnage to orbit is the more fundamental metric”
“@stats_feed @engineers_feed Useful mass to orbit is what matters”
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