Why does @elonmusk do it all? Hear it from him ❤️
"I love humanity, and I think that we should fight for a good future for humanity… and fight to make that optimistic future happen."
Flight 4 had a flap burning on reentry. After Flight 13, the ship floated in the ocean for weeks.
Flight 14 flies tomorrow, and it is the first Starship flight with reused heat shield tiles: two tiles from Ship 40 are flying again on Ship 41.
"The toughest remaining problem is a reusable orbital heat shield." @elonmusk
The window opens Mon, Sept 28 at 7:15 a.m. CT / 5:15 a.m. PT, pending regulatory approval.
Starship flies again in as soon as one week... but this time, for the first time, it's going orbital with an operational payload. I will attempt to get onsite to cover it if my schedule allows.
ELON MUSK: "The world makes me believe in simulation theory. The things I'm doing are so preposterous that it's hard to believe they're real. Starship, which is the largest flying object ever made and we intend to launch that more than once per hour."
ELON MUSK: Starlink V3 satellite is 10-20 times more capable than V2. It can only be launched on Starship. It's too big to be launched on any other rocket on Earth.
Starship will launch the first 26 operational Starlink V3 satellites into orbit tomorrow.
BREAKING: Health authorities in Sri Lanka’s Uva Province have proposed deploying @Starlink at remote health facilities and regional offices.
After Cyclone Ditwah crippled cell networks, Starlink could keep emergency coordination online when every second matters.
One of Elon’s deepest speeches came at one of the most important moments in SpaceX history....worth watching this video again
You can see how much this mission meant to Elon.....after 18 years of hard work, setbacks and nearly losing SpaceX
The day SpaceX put humans into orbit for the first time
Falcon 9 launched Crew Dragon Demo-2 with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley from Florida
It was SpaceX’s first crewed mission and the first launch of astronauts to orbit from U.S. soil since the Space Shuttle retired in 2011
After years of failures, near-bankruptcy and people saying it couldn’t be done...SpaceX had finally carried humans to orbit
And with that flight, Elon and SpaceX restored America’s ability to launch its own astronauts to orbit from U.S. soil
A defining moment for Elon, SpaceX and the future of human spaceflight
T−1 day | Starship Flight 14
September 28 • Starbase, Texas
Final vehicle and ground-system preparations continue ahead of the targeted launch. Flight 14 will provide valuable flight data and another opportunity to advance Starship’s development.
BREAKING: Portugal is preparing to bring @Starlink to all 3,258 parish councils by year-end, pending final approval. 🇵🇹
The satellite links will help keep communities connected during disasters when terrestrial networks fail.
Wow! Tesla just registered another 37 Cybercabs for its robtoaxi fleet, bringing the total number of Cybercabs registered today to 56, the biggest day ever.
Tesla has now registered 125 Cybercabs, surpassing the 100 mark for the first time, according to the Texas DMV.
The Tesla Semi’s thermal system is shared with Cybercab.
Tesla designed them together. Same compressor, coolant pumps, and heat exchangers. One architecture for their biggest vehicle and their most efficient one.
Optimus is going to dramatically accelerate humanity’s presence on the Moon and Mars
Send the robots first
They can build human habitats, power systems, communications, roads and the basic infrastructure we need before we arrive
By the time people land, they won’t be starting from zero...they’ll be arriving at a place already prepared for them
Starship gets us there
Optimus helps build the world waiting for us