Hillary Coe

Chief Design & Marketing Officer at @vast | ex @spacex @google | CPL | CFI | CFII

[Hillary Coe @Hillarycoe]

It was a pleasure hosting you, looking forward to season 6. 🚀

[For All Mankind @forallmankind_]

Not your average screening room.

Vast Space Station hosted an exclusive screening in their mission control room followed by a Q&A with #ForAllMankind Executive Producers Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi.

[Hillary Coe @Hillarycoe]

@leahy30xy Now: https://t.co/Oyz2WL0zge

[Hillary Coe @Hillarycoe]

Form meets function.

[Vast @vast]

Introducing the Vast Astronaut Flight Suit. Built with a human-centric design and developed in partnership with Vast Lead Astronaut @Astro_Feustel, the suit prioritizes mobility, comfort, and on-orbit functionality.

[Hillary Coe @Hillarycoe]

@Starlink @gleesonjm Beautiful graphics, team.

[Hillary Coe @Hillarycoe]

@SpaceX @satofishi Yeeees Chun 🖖🏻

[Hillary Coe @Hillarycoe]

This is unreal footage.

[NASA Artemis @NASAArtemis]

POV: You’re coming home after a journey around the Moon. 🌕

Before reentering Earth’s atmosphere at the end of Artemis II, the Orion spacecraft’s crew module — carrying the astronauts — separated from the service module that provided propulsion and power throughout the mission.

[Hillary Coe @Hillarycoe]

@aliceypatel You’re the coolest woman I know, Alice 🖖🏻

[Hillary Coe @Hillarycoe]

@gleesonjm @Starbase James, I’m so glad you’re finally embracing your mad max warrior-dad era.

[Hillary Coe @Hillarycoe]

@DrChrisCombs @bluemoondance74 Agree 100%

[Hillary Coe @Hillarycoe]

Form empowers function.

https://t.co/3fU1NWV1kp

[Hillary Coe @Hillarycoe]

@FastCompany And she is a BOSS. 💪

[Hillary Coe @Hillarycoe]

@rookisaacman @AeroBigMike @NASAAdmin Well said.

[Hillary Coe @Hillarycoe]

@gleesonjm lol

[Hillary Coe @Hillarycoe]

It’s…large.

[Vast @vast]

Introducing the Large Docking Adapter. The future of space is larger space stations, vehicles, and payloads. Designed to support greater overall mass while standardizing module compatibility, the adapter is currently in development at Vast HQ and available for order. https://t.co/MQYmEU6UTc

[Hillary Coe @Hillarycoe]

Thank you @IWC for the opportunity to partner on this human spaceflight-rated masterpiece.

[Vast @vast]

At Watches and Wonders Geneva, @IWC unveiled the Pilot's Venturer Vertical Drive, a tool watch developed with Vast. It passed rigorous vibration, pressure, and materials testing at our Long Beach HQ, making it officially qualified for human spaceflight. https://t.co/nBnSVxwXdA

[Hillary Coe @Hillarycoe]

@Erdayastronaut Yessss!

[Space Intelligence @SpaceIntel101]

Nice view of the core stage separation!

[Don Pettit @astro_Pettit]

Spudnik-1, an orbiting potato on @Space_Station!

I flew potatoes on Expedition 72 for my space garden, an activity I did in my off-duty time. This is an early purple potato, complete with spot of hook Velcro to anchor it in my improvised grow light terrarium.

Potatoes are one of the most efficient plants based on edible nutrition to total plant mass (including roots). Recognized by Andy Weir in his book/movie "The Martian," potatoes will have a place in future exploration of space. So I thought it good to get started now!

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

Everyone is covering Terafab as a chip factory.

It is not a chip factory.

Last night in Austin, Elon unveiled a facility that makes masks, fabricates chips, and tests them inside a single building with a nine-month recursive improvement cadence. No such loop exists anywhere else on Earth. Then he told you 80% of the output goes to space. Then he showed you a 100-kilowatt AI satellite with solar panels and radiators, scaling to megawatt range. Then he said Optimus plus photovoltaics will be the first von Neumann probe, a machine capable of replicating itself from raw materials found in space.

Nobody connected the sequence.

Terafab produces 1 terawatt per year of compute. The entire United States consumes 0.5 terawatts of electricity. Musk is building a single factory whose output in AI silicon exceeds twice the power consumption of the country it sits in. And he is sending 80% of it off-planet because Earth literally cannot power what he is building.

Follow the mechanism. Terafab seeds the chips. Starship launches Optimus robots and solar arrays at 100 million tons per year. The robots mine lunar and asteroid regolith for silicon, iron, and nickel. They 3D-print more robots. They fabricate more solar panels. They assemble more AI satellites. Each satellite runs hotter-burning D3 chips designed specifically for vacuum, where free radiative cooling eliminates the thermal constraints that strangle every terrestrial data center on the planet. The nodes replicate. The replication is exponential.

This is a Dyson Swarm bootstrap hidden inside a semiconductor announcement.

The math is public. The Sun outputs 3.828 times 10 to the 26th watts. A 2022 paper in Physica Scripta calculated that 5.5 billion satellites at 290 kilograms each, robotically manufactured from Mars resources, capture enough solar energy to meet all of Earth’s power needs within 50 years. A 2025 paper in Solar Energy Materials calculated a partial swarm capturing 4% of solar output yields 15.6 yottawatts, roughly a billion times current human civilization’s total energy budget. Musk just announced the factory that builds the chips that go inside the satellites that replicate themselves forever.

92% of advanced logic chips are fabricated in Taiwan. One factory in Austin does not fix that. But one self-replicating system seeded by that factory, launched by the only company with reusable heavy-lift rockets, assembled by the only humanoid robot in mass production, and powered by the only star within reach, does not fix a supply chain. It obsoletes the concept of supply chains entirely.

The market priced this as a $20 billion capex story about semiconductor independence.

The actual announcement was the engineering blueprint for Kardashev Type II.

Humanity sits at 0.73 on the Kardashev scale. 18 terawatts. The distance between here and harnessing a star is not a technology gap. It is a recursion gap. And recursion is exactly what a single building in Austin that makes its own masks, builds its own chips, tests its own chips, and launches the output into orbit on its own rockets was designed to close.

Every civilization that makes it past this point never looks back.

[Hillary Coe @Hillarycoe]

@astro_anil Rooting for you Anil!