With innovative PocketQube satellite technology, icMercury — Your Personal Satellite makes space exploration accessible, eco-friendly, and engaging for all.
Thank you to everyone who came to the Empresse Atelier fashion show in New York hosted and organized by @DrJessxAI, @icMercuryX, and myself featuring celebrities Laurence Gartel and Catherine Schuller. Follow me and Jessica for future events. ✨
Really fun to interview my old friend Bret Johnsen in Mission Control.
Three parts of the @SpaceX story that I wish were more widely discussed:
SpaceX has created thousands of good blue-collar jobs: welders, machinists, electricians. Everyone talks about the need to bring high-paying, blue-collar jobs back to America. SpaceX and Tesla are making that happen. To the best of my knowledge, they have created more manufacturing jobs in the US than just about any other American company over the last ten years. It’s hard to imagine our nascent industrial renaissance succeeding without these companies.
SpaceX was started with the goal of putting humans on Mars. And along the way, they have massively improved life for many humans on Earth. Mars may be a starter planet, but Earth is our planet, and the technologies developed at SpaceX are already in use today connecting and safeguarding the people of Earth. Starlink is a really efficient way to bring internet to low-income countries. In Kenya’s remote Murang’a County, Starlink has made it possible for patients in rural villages to consult with medical specialists via telemedicine. In the rainforests of Brazil, Starlink has connected schools to reliable high-speed internet that will provide more educational opportunities to students. Here in America, Starlink has proven vital to emergency teams responding to natural disasters. During Hurricane Helene, the Starlink hubs dropped into North Carolina and East Tennessee were often the only contact point between cut-off towns and the outside world. Literally life-saving.
This IPO will be a big milestone for the company. It’s important to celebrate this, while also remembering that making humanity multi-planetary is the ultimate goal. Going to Mars is really hard. There have been many setbacks thus far, ranging from fiery explosions to failed landings. There will be many more. Ad Astra Per Aspera. But SpaceX is at its best *after* a setback imo. Their first 3 launches were “failures”. Had the 4th not succeeded, there might not be a SpaceX today. The company’s success in the face of such daunting odds is a testament to the resilience of the culture and absolute commitment to the mission shared by every employee I’ve ever spoken with. Some of the world’s most talented engineers have chosen to live in Airstreams at Starbase away from their families for weeks on end in service of this goal. I will never forget the welders who told me they signed every weld because they wanted to be accountable if they were responsible for a failure. True missionaries, all of them.
I am grateful to every single person at SpaceX for helping to make the future as inspirational as possible. And I will be even more grateful if I get to see a blue sunset on Mars!
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Founder of @icmercury and Arts and Fashion curator, Ms. Lijie Zhu has been an incredible inspiration for our Miami Swim Week Showcase. We have been graciously invited to collaborate with her satellite company’s “Art to the Moon Initiative”. The next project entails a robotic Vernissage of artwork created by Laurence GARTEL “Father of Digital Art”. Through community initiatives like our showcase in Miami we aim to promote the accessibility of space industry innovation for the general public in improving livelihoods via connectivity and AI driven education and empowerment. We extend our hewrtfelt gratitude to @icmercury for the inspiration behind this wonderful initiative. We look forward to hosting everyone at our next event in New York City’s Financial District at the South Street Seaport. 👑🌎🌃🍎
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I would like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to our partner and co-curator of the Empresse Atelier Fashion Showcase for Laurence GARTEL at Miami Swim Week’s Queen Beauty Network Runway last weekend, icMercury @ic_mercury
Miami Swim Week was a blast. 🚀🛰️🌎🎉
The icMercury platform we have partnered with, blends high fashion, contemporary art, and accessible satellite tech through its “Art to the Moon” Initiative. The runway event at Miami Swim Week in collaboration with Dr. Jessica Konopka’s EMPRESSE ATELIER featured celestial-themed swimwear, and space inspired glamorous evening gowns inspired by Laurence Gartel’s newest digital art release to engage new audiences.
Powered by the convenient pocket sized HADES-SA/SpinnyONE “PocketQube” satellite—built with Scotland’s Spinning Around and Spain’s Hydra Space—the project lets amateur radio enthusiasts worldwide send text, voice, and images from orbit, with a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch planned for September. Ultimately, icMercury offers a fresh, community-driven blueprint for the space economy that prioritizes creativity and human connection. Our goal is to make the space frontier available for all enthusiasts of the cosmic vast through initiatives that bring us closer as a community of experts in wellness and innovation. @elonmusk@neuralink@spacex@GARTEL@VogueRunway@grumark1954@AdamLowisz@DylanZic@xai@grok
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I had an amazing time at Miami Swim Week talking about all the great things X is doing to improve the platform for content creators. The @elonmusk appreciation afterparty was a blast. Thank you to @DrJessxAI @ic_mercury @GARTEL for your work on the EMPRESSE ATELIER show. ❤️
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I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to our Miami Swim Week Empresse Atelier showcase co-curator and esteemed collaborator, the brilliant Lijie Zhu of @ic_mercury who has invited us to partner with her company on the “Art to the Moon” Initiative to co-curate an Exhibition of Laurence GARTEL’s artwork destined for the Moon. I am truly humbled and grateful to everyone who has made this project and our avant-garde Runway showcase at Miami Swim Week’s Queen Beauty Network’s Fashion Show such a success. We look forward to hosting you at our next Fashion Show on June 18th 2026 in the Financial District organized in collaboration with @icmercury and @runwaythereal. Thank you to our amazing team for a marvelous collaboration. We couldn’t have done it without you. Catherine Schuller Gruenwald🙏👑❤️ @grumark1954@GARTEL@AdamLowisz@DylanZic@nyfw@elonmusk@nypost@VanityFair@VogueRunway
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Raw footage post Empresse Atelier Miami Swim WeekQueen Beauty Network Fashion Show held at the Sagamore Hotel. Stay tuned for shots and amazing content from the runway.
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We are celebrating the Empresse Atelier Miami Swim Week debut with an Elon Musk Apprecion Party as a “Force for Good”…. Paying it forward with Fashion 😘👑✨ @mayemusk@miamiswimweek26@GartelArtCars