Andrey Drozder

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

SpaceX has just officially unveiled its AI1 satellite, the first generation of its AI satellite.

Overall Specs:
• 150 kW peak compute payload
• 120 kW average compute payload
• 70 kW per ton
• Compute provider interchangeable

Dimensions:
• Wingspan: 70 meters
• Deployed height: 20 meters

Thermal System:
• 110 m² deployable liquid radiator
• Redundant pumping loops
• Integrated micrometeoroid shielding
• Deployable liquid radiators

Solar Power System:
• 150 kW solar array
• 250 W/m²
• SpaceX-manufactured solar technology from Bastrop, Texas

Architecture:
• Centralized compute module
• Large deployable solar arrays
• Deployable liquid-radiator thermal management system
• AI-focused compute satellite design ("AI1 satellite")

Elon: "The AI satellite is much simpler than a Starlink satellite. The AI satellite is essentially a lot of solar cells, you still need some laser links, but you don't have all of the super complex antennas that you have on a Starlink satellite. The easier one to design for is the AI satellite. It's bigger. A lot of this is technology we've already made with the Starlink V3 satellites."

[Andrey Drozder @AndreyDrozder]

@elonmusk In Musk We Trust!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Good Starship highlights video

[Starlink @Starlink]

Starlink-equipped buoys provided real-time video streaming in the Indian Ocean during Starship's twelfth flight test

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Mostly true. What matters is securing the long-term future of consciousness, both on Earth and other heavenly bodies.

We cannot just focus on Earth, because there are irreducible external (eg massive meteor) and internal (eg global nuclear war) cataclysmic risks.

The Moon is faster to make self-growing, but is more susceptible to problems on Earth. Mars will take longer to make self-growing, because it is so hard to reach, but is more secure from Earth disasters for that same reason.

Both the Moon and Mars should have self-growing civilizations. Making this happen is the prime directive of SpaceX.

[RedNeckPapa @RedNeckPapa6291]

New views of landing on Starship Flight 11!

[Logan Pierce @_lpierce]

The future is here!

[Cameron Schwartz @nyoomtm]

Liftoff of Starship V3, from the dunes right outside the pad.

This is the most insane shockwave action I have ever seen on video. Absolutely mad.

📽️ Me for @WeAreSpaceScout

[Andrey Drozder @AndreyDrozder]

@elonmusk congrats!

[Andrey Drozder @AndreyDrozder]

@elonmusk It's the most inspiring thing ever!

[Starlink @Starlink]

The Starlink team is exploring ways to extend connectivity beyond our planet

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Live webcast of Starship's twelfth flight test starts now

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk said five words on Joe Rogan that explain everything wrong with your life right now.

Musk: “Happiness is reality minus expectations.”

Five words.

And it explains why the most comfortable generation in human history can’t stop feeling empty.

Musk: “If you just go try living in the woods by yourself for a while, you’ll learn that civilization is quite great.”

He’s right.

On Naked and Afraid, people tap out in days. Sometimes hours. They crawl back to the same civilization they spent years resenting.

Because comfort is invisible until you’re sleeping in the dirt.

But the formula has a second variable.

It’s the one destroying you.

Reality didn’t get worse. By every measure, it’s the best it’s ever been.

Expectations did.

Your grandparents compared themselves to their neighbor. Maybe a cousin. That was the whole universe.

You compare yourself to 10,000 strangers before your first cup of coffee. Curated. Filtered. Showing you a life that doesn’t exist.

Theodore Roosevelt said it a century before any of this was built.

Roosevelt: “Comparison is the thief of joy.”

No Instagram. No TikTok. No algorithm designed by the smartest engineers on the planet to show you precisely what you don’t have.

And he still called it.

Now run the equation.

Reality holds steady. Expectations spike every time you unlock your phone. The distance between them stretches. And happiness doesn’t fade.

It collapses.

Not because your life got worse.

Because your reference point moved.

We built the greatest civilization in human history.

Then we built the perfect machine to make sure nobody enjoys it.

Every scroll. Every notification. Every “suggested for you.” None of it connects you. It’s recalibrating what you think you need. Upward. Constantly. Without your consent.

And you wonder why you feel behind.

You’re not behind.

You’re running toward a finish line that moves every time you look up.

The most dangerous lie of this generation isn’t that life is hard.

It’s that everyone else figured it out. And you’re the only one who didn’t.

Nobody figured it out.

The formula doesn’t negotiate. It just runs.

Raise expectations faster than reality improves and you will be miserable inside a paradise you built with your own hands.

That’s not philosophy.

That’s arithmetic.

And the calculator is in your pocket right now.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship and Super Heavy V3 moved to the pad at Starbase for final testing and preparations for launch

[Aaron Burnett @aaronburnett]

Starbase is a surreal experience. This megastructure is building and assembling 10 starships and 5 super heavy boosters (according to Elon) this year. Steel comes in one end and the world’s largest most powerful rockets come out the other. You can just drive by and look directly into the future.

It’s crazy to think this whole structure, vehicles, and launch pads only cost ~$15B (the same amount Google spends on EU fines in 18 months).

[Doge Tipping @Dogetothemoon]

How it started vs how it goes

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Starship’s cargo bay delivers 1,000+ cubic meters of usable volume

The entire International Space Station has a pressurized volume of 1,005 m³
It took 42 assembly flights and over $150 billion across 13+ years to build
Starship can deliver more volume than the entire ISS in a single flight

For context, a single payload bay can hold:
→ The interior volume of a massive 5-bedroom house
→ The volume of 20+ standard shipping containers
→ Entire space station modules (fully assembled)
→ Over two dozen Cybertrucks
→ Multiple Boeing 737 fuselage sections
→ 100+ large satellites with room to spare

And it is 18 meters tall....meaning you can stack an entire 5-story building inside it

And it is fully reusable.
Launch the next massive telescope. Or an entire space station. Or the next Mars habitat
All possible in a single flight

This is why Starship is pure engineering magic