Mars Venture Community

A down-to-earth community of entrepreneurs, investors, and scientists interested in Mars. We bring high-flying ideas closer to reality.

[Mars Venture Community @mars_venture]

Starship Update 2022. Watch here: https://t.co/QX3WfBQAfm

[Jim Cantrell @jamesncantrell]

Truly amazing

[Jenny Fielding @jefielding]

We’ve pre seeded 250 companies. I can count on one hand how many had any revenue before we invested. True pre seed investors are out there, just not very many of us!

[Vinod Khosla @vkhosla]

Occasional setbacks are a part of trying ambitious stuff. Kudos to @JeffBezos for trying. I’m sure he will succeed next time. Try and fail but don’t fail to try

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Next flight of Starship and first flight of V3 ship & booster is 4 to 6 weeks away

[delian @zebulgar]

The coolest orbital animation I've seen of Artemis 2

Just really shows you how far away they're flying today and also how precise they need to be to go to the moon

[The Capital Mind @Capital_Mind_]

Sam Altman and Elon Musk under oath in the same room is the ultimate GovFi showdown.

The judge sees enough evidence to let a jury decide if "for the good of humanity" was just a marketing slogan for the world's most expensive pivot.

When billionaires fight over founding charters, the only real winners are the competing LLMs. 🏛️

[Curiosity @MAstronomers]

This is Mars!

140 million miles away from us!

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

A Lobster is a prisoner of it shell, as the shell can not expand as it grows.

So how does it grow?

It must feel uncomfortable first.

Wisdom.

Please https://t.co/E0WjzMW7Fy.

Your wisdom is priceless.

[Curiosity @MAstronomers]

This is Mars! 🪐🤯

It’s honestly terrifying how much this looks like a random desert on Earth.

Just a casual 225 million miles away.

The clarity is unreal.

[Dima Zeniuk @DimaZeniuk]

Inside the Starship factory

Starbase, Texas

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

SpaceX’s new Raptor 3 is the most advanced rocket engine ever built

Key upgrades over earlier Raptors:

• Nearly double the thrust compared to Raptor 1
• About 4× cheaper to manufacture, dramatically lowering launch costs
• A simplified design that saves over 40 metric tons of mass per Starship launch
• Durable enough to eliminate the need for an external heat shield, reducing complexity and maintenance

Raptor 3 is designed to fly on Starship Version 3, with first flight targeted for early 2026

[Dima Zeniuk @DimaZeniuk]

Engineering is where true magic happens

[Dima Zeniuk @DimaZeniuk]

Seeing a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch from a plane is unbelievable

[Tesla Owners Silicon Valley @teslaownersSV]

Elon Musk: The upcoming Starship iteration will enable payload deliveries exceeding 100 tons to orbit with complete reusability.

“Starship version 3 is a gigantic upgrade because it’s got Raptor 3. And pretty much everything changes on the rocket. It might have some initial teething pains because it’s such a radical redesign, but it’s capable of over 100 tons to orbit, fully reusable. I think, unless we have some very major setbacks, SpaceX will demonstrate full reusability next year, catching both the booster and the ship and being able to deliver over 100 tons to a useful orbit.”

[Prof. Carl Sagan @ProfCarlSagan]

Carl Sagan wrote "The Demon-Haunted World" in 1995. We should have paid attention.

[Everyday Astronaut @Erdayastronaut]

This is definitely one of the biggest launches of the year for me! And I’m so excited it’s a day time launch (and landing)!

[Marcus House @MarcusHouse]

Flight 11's Ship surviving intentional re-entry carnage was bonkers. SpaceX really did try to kill it with tiles removed on absolutely critical areas.

[Eric Berger @SciGuySpace]

The access is quite incredible. Unprecedented.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Splashdown confirmed! Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on an exciting eleventh flight test of Starship!

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship is executing a banking maneuver that mimics the final approach it would take while returning to Starbase for a catch on a future mission