Mark Federschmidt

I like hiking and building rockets. Views are my own and any queries related to SpaceX should be directed to the official SpaceX media team.

[Mark Federschmidt @BoosterTribe]

Sound on! Lets. Freaking. Go!!!!!!
Camera was just sitting on the wall so enjoy that shaking.

[Mark Federschmidt @BoosterTribe]

Images pulled from my video of flight 12… a few frames later those spherical pressure waves made the video so much cooler than these pictures. 🚀

[Mark Federschmidt @BoosterTribe]

@AJamesMcCarthy I thought @rebeccaperrotto was starting a charity to honor Liv.

[Mark Federschmidt @BoosterTribe]

“Starship may end up being the most important thing we ever do.”
— Elon Musk

[Mark Federschmidt @BoosterTribe]

Super impressive timeline update for Blue. Good luck!
Ad astra per aspera 🚀🛰️🧑‍🚀

[Dave Limp @davill]

Some LC-36 updates. Now that we’ve had access to the pad and integration facility we can share a bit of good news. The propellant farm, oxygen, liquid hydrogen and LNG tanks are all in good shape. This is good luck because these are very long lead items. The water tower is also good. The big support tower is damaged, but it can be repaired in place rather than torn down and replaced. The booster “Never Tell Me The Odds” and the three GS-2s that were onsite in the integration facility also look good.

I’ve seen some speculation that we might move directly to the 9x4 configuration, but we won’t do that. Rate manufacturing of 7x2 is going well, and we’re going to continue that at pace as planned and store the stages for use. In addition, we had already been working for some time on eliminating our transporter-erector in favor of an alternative vertical conop, and we’ll now go directly to that; so we don’t need a new transporter-erector.

We will fly again before the end of this year. Gradatim Ferociter.

[Mark Federschmidt @BoosterTribe]

Haha this got a pretty good laugh out of me.

[ege @aegeantic]

How its meant to be used btw

[Mark Federschmidt @BoosterTribe]

@JackCarrUSA Dang I checked copies in Boston and Dallas today for signatures. Guess I’ll just buy a copy without one 🤣

[Mark Federschmidt @BoosterTribe]

@SpaceEnjoyers Point was that I often don’t know where I am going in airports but I don’t just randomly stop in the aisle and make it everyone else’s problem 🤣

[Mark Federschmidt @BoosterTribe]

Shoutout to all you legends that move out of the walkways in airports when you realize you have no idea where you are going.
Based on my experience today at DFW we are a dying breed and should be celebrated while we last 🤣

[Mark Federschmidt @BoosterTribe]

@BrennanDegen What a crazy 24 hours that was.

[Mark Federschmidt @BoosterTribe]

Can’t wait until Starship gets to Cape.

[Kiko Dontchev @TurkeyBeaver]

@Starship_20 Soon

[Mark Federschmidt @BoosterTribe]

@aestheticsguyy

[Pierre Ferragu @p_ferragu]

Sorry Delta… I went where connectivity is. Amazing flight browsing the Champion’s league final as if I were home. Starlink experience is incredible. (And I am not even telling you where I flew… more to come on this!)

[Mark Federschmidt @BoosterTribe]

Have some cargo for Mars? SpaceX can help with that. 🚀

[Mark Federschmidt @BoosterTribe]

This is when I decided I wanted to work @SpaceX . 6 years ago today Crew Dragon Demo-2 took flight and I was there at KSC with family to watch.

[Mark Federschmidt @BoosterTribe]

@BurtMaclin_FBI @Starlink @elonmusk Me waiting for all the fake Elon accounts to spam you.

[Mark Federschmidt @BoosterTribe]

@DimaZeniuk This is always awesome to see… but the V3s look so much better doing it.

[Mark Federschmidt @BoosterTribe]

@xdNiBoR Haha I forgot that idiot existed.

[Mark Federschmidt @BoosterTribe]

Happy Starbase Day!

[StarbaseTX @StarbaseTX]

The Starbase City Commission has officially declared May 29 as Starbase Day! We're excited to have a dedicated day each year to celebrate our community.

[Mark Federschmidt @BoosterTribe]

That sucks. A lot of people put their heart and soul into engineering and building the rocket and static fire pad.

[Spaceflight Now @SpaceflightNow]

Here's our video of the explosion at Launch Complex 36. It happened about 9 pm ET (0100 UTC) as Blue Origin was beginning a static fire test of its New Glenn rocket.

Watch live views: https://t.co/tm2wZQmAVD

[Mark Federschmidt @BoosterTribe]

@BurtMaclin_FBI @AJamesMcCarthy 🤣