Michael

Rocket engine design. Drexel alumnus.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Raptor 3 first firing today

[Gwynne Shotwell @Gwynne_Shotwell]

Works pretty good for a “partially assembled” engine :)

[Gibson Johns @gibsonoma]

Greg’s date’s “ludicrously capacious bag” found dead in a ditch. #Succession

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Tracking camera footage of Super Heavy MECO (most engines cut off) as 30 of the booster's 33 Raptor engines shut down in preparation for hot-staging

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Slow motion tracking shot of Super Heavy's 33 Raptor engines shortly after liftoff

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship’s hot-stage separation was the first time this technique has been done successfully with a vehicle of this size

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship liftoff in slow motion

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship liftoff through successful hot-stage separation

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship launches off the pad under the power of all 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy Booster

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on an exciting second integrated flight test of Starship!

Starship successfully lifted off under the power of all 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy Booster and made it through stage separation

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Tracking camera views of hot-staging separation

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Preparing for launch on Saturday

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship stacked for flight. This is another chance to put Starship in a true flight environment, maximizing how much we learn.

Rapid iterative development is essential as we work to build a fully reusable launch system capable of carrying satellites, payloads, crew, and cargo to a variety of orbits and Earth, lunar, and Martian landing sites

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Was just informed that approval to launch should happen in time for a Friday launch

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Congrats to SpaceX for completing & documented the 57 items required by the FAA for Flight 2 of Starship!

Worth noting that 6 of the 63 items refer to later flights.

[Phil Metzger @DrPhiltill]

Great explanation. When a government agency adds caveats like “SpaceX still must take corrective actions before a launch permit can be issued”, that is *not* implying that SpaceX has not already taken them. It’s just the legally cautious way the government writes.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

The test produced approximately 7.9 million lbf of thrust (~3,600 metric tons)

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Super Heavy Booster 9 transported back to the orbital launch pad at Starbase for additional preflight testing

[Michael @mjb522_]

get that swivel to NPT adapter out of here man

[Sam Zeloof @szeloof]

Hiring engineers - name every fitting adapter for an interview