This one might be my favorite to date. Speechless.
Starship as she began clearing the tower today before her orbital debut.
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Fire and fury of the Raptor 3s pushing Starship 14 skyward 🚀
I spent two years pursuing this image. I was certain that I'd failed again today. Got home and discovered that, in fact, I hadn't.
I set a camera really close to the launch pad to get this shot. It was a sound activated trigger since it wasn’t safe for me to stand here.
That’s all 33 Raptor engines performing nominally as Starship heads to orbit for the first time.
SpaceX has released a new blog post about Starship’s 14th flight today.
“During Starship’s ascent burn, a single Raptor vacuum engine shut down early. Starship still achieved its planned, passively safe suborbital trajectory by burning its remaining five engines for longer than planned to compensate for the loss of thrust.
After entering its suborbital trajectory, the flight control team assessed Starship’s systems and determined the three sea-level Raptors engines needed for subsequent burns were healthy and gave a “go” for orbital operations. Starship then reignited a single Raptor sea-level engine to perform an orbit insertion burn and entered into orbit around Earth for the first time.
After a brief coast, Starship then deployed all 26 Starlink V3 satellites. Contact was made soon after with every satellite over laser links, ground stations, and Starlink user terminals. The satellites will now conduct on-orbit checkouts and raise their orbits before they begin serving customers.
Following payload deploy, Starship entered into a coast phase around Earth. Out of an abundance of caution given the engine issue experienced during ascent, the flight control team decided to limit the duration spent on orbit and proceeded with deorbiting Starship to a splashdown location in the northern Pacific Ocean. This area was one of two pre-coordinated landing zones identified before launch that was cleared of sea and air traffic.
Starship then relit a single Raptor sea-level engine and performed its first ever deorbit burn. That maneuver successfully brought the vehicle out of orbit and sent Starship through atmospheric reentry and descent to the intended splashdown point.
The first orbital Starship flight concluded with the vehicle relighting all three Raptor sea-level engines in a landing burn and flip maneuver before splashing down on target in the Pacific Ocean.”
Link to blog: https://t.co/dSkszwsmvP
With today’s single Starship launch, SpaceX added more Starlink capacity in the last hour than the first ~1.5 years of Starlink launches. The next launch will cover another full year. Welcome to the network, V3! 🚀
After >$15B of development costs (per the S-1)
And almost 15 years of research
Starship has delivered its first orbital payload
She will change the course of humanity
Waymo’s latest Q2 data marks a notable inflection point in operational safety!
Robotaxis are safer than humans.
~40,000 people die annually in US road accidents.
Release the robotaxis!
SpaceX's supercomputing facilities in the Mid-South rank among the world’s most advanced AI training clusters, spanning over 2.5 million feet, millions of GPUs, and over two gigawatts of compute → https://t.co/JkKvN24tBY
Through the VOICE trial, Terry is using his Neuralink implant to help fine-tune a brain-to-voice interface for himself and others who can’t speak. He trained the algorithm first by miming speech as best he could, then by simply thinking the words and hearing them come out in his own natural voice.
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As the recently expanded partnership with @AnthropicAI demonstrates, @SpaceX is offering AI compute as a service at significant scale.
We are in discussions with other companies to do the same.
Over time, especially with orbital data centers, we expect to serve AI at extremely high scale.
@daveneur Thanks for asking Dave. I have said many times beware of 13Fs - they often do not reflect economic exposure. They do not include shorts so if a manager “boxes” a position by selling an equal number of shares short - the 13f continues to only show the long position . 🧐📈
To be clear, our sale of $GOOG was not a bet against the company. We are very bullish long term on Alphabet. But at current valuations and in light of our finite capital base, we used $GOOG as a source of funds for $MSFT.