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[SpaceX @SpaceX]

The SpaceX Recovery team is still working to recover Flight 13’s Starship from the Indian Ocean. They’ve been overcoming challenging conditions and increasingly rough seas as they attempt to guide the 52m long spacecraft to port

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Elon: "I don't want to jinx it or anything, but I think I would call the heat shield problem solved at this point. All indications from data and visual inspection is we have solved it. That doesn't mean we won't make improvement, but we do not see any technical obstacles to achieving rapid reusability at this point."

[S.E. Robinson, Jr. @SERobinsonJr]

SPACEX: According to local reports, the final stages of a deal are in place for SpaceX to build the new spaceport on Pecan Island in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, and Governor Jeff Landry is expected to make an announcement this month.

SpaceX would gain control of the land through a coastal lawsuit settlement in which ExxonMobil turns over property it has owned since the 1950s. Included in the deal are coastal restoration provisions.

The sparsely populated site offers Gulf and Intracoastal Waterway access for barges, a midpoint location between Starbase and the Florida Space Coast, and natural gas supplies. Only a fraction of the over 130k acers would be used for actual launch infrastructure, with the rest as a buffer.

If this is true, the project will undoubtedly create thousands of jobs. Louisiana has passed liability protections for aerospace operations, and the FAA recently proposed waiving more than a dozen environmental laws for launch licenses.

The location will support orbital launches and is the perfect spot for SpaceX to launch Starmind AI Datacenters to sun-synch orbit.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship in space set to Moonlight Sonata

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The ship landing was precise, meaning that it would have been caught by the tower arms

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

We’re sending a ship out to recover Starship

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Landing burn and splashdown of Starship on Flight 13

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Peter is not correct about me in this case.

I have always known that dangers from Earth will also pose dangers to Mars. Obviously so. However, the immense difficulty of traveling to Mars means that there is a much higher likelihood of mitigating risks originating from Earth.

A clear example of major risk reduction would be a deadly pandemic. Since it takes 6 months to reach Mars, there is an automatic 6 month quarantine!

Even traveling at the speed of light, a deadly computer virus or AI attack can potentially be stopped due to Mars being ~4 to ~20 light-minutes from Earth.

This doesn’t mean that a Mars civilization eliminates all risk, but it absolutely greatly reduces the risk of consciousness being extinguished.

Moreover, Mars is a stepping stone to extending consciousness broadly within our solar system and ultimately to millions of stars within our galaxy, which would extend the probable lifespan of consciousness as we know it by many orders of magnitude.

That said, what I personally find most motivating is not the risk reduction aspect of extending life beyond Earth, but rather the inspiring nature of exploration and being out there among the stars!

Perhaps we will meet aliens or find the remains of long-dead civilizations that lasted millions of years …

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@DJSnM Unless we discover problems after mission data review, SpaceX will attempt to catch the ship with the tower on next flight

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Splashdown confirmed! Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on the 13th flight test of Starship!

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

The @Starlink team successfully made contact with all 20 V3 satellites

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship has successfully ignited one of its Raptor engines while in space, testing a maneuver that will be needed on future orbital missions

[Scott Manley @DJSnM]

And stage separation looks better than last time

[Goose @megagoose11]

Okay, now this is sci-fi

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Watch Starship's thirteenth flight test https://t.co/qkYYJiX24h

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

During next year’s Artemis III mission, teams will practice rendezvous, docking, and proximity operations in low-Earth orbit

[ᯅ̈?! @djfnfkdkdkz]

First stage of Long March-10B has arrived at Sanya Port.

[Chandler G @Echo5550]

Long March 10B has successfully been caught on its barge! It becomes the fifth orbital rocket class to propulsivly land and be recovered! China Rocket Co. becomes the third company, along with SpaceX and Blue Origin, to recover their booster. This also makes China the second nation to successfully recover an orbital-class booster!

Congrats to the Chinarocket Co and the Long March 10B team!

[CNSPACE @CNSpaceflight]

🎉 Long March 10 first stage recovery

[Ace of Razgriz @raz_liu]

Drone footage of the landing burn & catch. via CCTV