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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 13, 2021
Pretty close. Booster & arms will move faster. QD arm will steady booster for ship mate.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 13, 2021
And ship will be caught by Mechazilla too. As with booster, no landing legs. Those are only needed for moon & Mars until there is local infrastructure.
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Erc X
@ErcXspace · Aug 13, 2021
Mechazilla <1 Hour Turnaround.
#SpaceX #Starship @elonmusk
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 13, 2021
Pretty close. Booster & arms will move faster. QD arm will steady booster for ship mate.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 13, 2021
Giga Berlin-Brandenburg county fair & factory tour on 9 October!
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 13, 2021
Priority for residents of Brandenburg & Berlin, but also open to general public
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 13, 2021
Giga Berlin-Brandenburg county fair & factory tour on 9 October!
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James Stephenson
@ICannot_Enough · Aug 12, 2021
“The losers would sue the federal government because they didn’t win…”
—Jeff Bezos
😳
😂🤣😂🤣
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 13, 2021
Iron(y)man
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Jeff 💙✌️
@JeffTutorials · Aug 12, 2021
The inside of a hydrogen car vs. the inside of a Tesla.
Which looks safer to you?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 12, 2021
The staying power of a bad idea is astonishing
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 11, 2021
16 flights is extremely unlikely. Starship payload to orbit is ~150 tons , so max of 8 to fill 1200 ton tanks of lunar Starship.
Without flaps & heat shield, Starship is much lighter. Lunar landing legs don’t add much (1/6 gravity). May only need 1/2 full, ie 4 tanker flights.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 12, 2021
Note, should be “refill”, not “refuel”. ~78% of propellant is liquid oxygen, only ~22% is fuel.
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Cathie Wood
@CathieDWood · Aug 12, 2021
Tesla seems to understand that China would like local champions to dominate electric vehicles (EV) sales inside the country but is pleased that Tesla is exporting from China high-quality/high-end EVs, especially to Europeans whose standards for fit-finish-design are quite high.
Sam Korus@skorusARK· Aug 10, 2021China is feeding the world EVs.
Also, July numbers don't look like a coincidence.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 12, 2021
Tesla makes cars for export in first half of quarter & for local market in second half.
As publicly disclosed, we are operating under extreme supply chain limitations regarding certain “standard” automotive chips.
Most problematic by far are Renesas & Bosch.
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Cosmic Perspective
@considercosmos · Aug 11, 2021
Super heavy booster 4 rolled back to the production site this morning. Shots like this always give me goosebumps 🎥 #Starship @SpaceX
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 12, 2021
Booster & Ship will return to orbital launch pad on Monday (winds allowing). Just finishing off some small plumbing & wiring, which is easier in high bay.
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Pope of Muskanity
@RationalEtienne · Aug 12, 2021
Brother, you better live long enough to see mankind establish a self sustaining civilization on Mars.
You cannot stop until you have achieved that. Your last breath has to be a breath of relief and your last thought has to be hope!
Feed yourself off our memes if you have to!❤️
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 12, 2021
I hope I do
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Alex
@alex_avoigt · Aug 11, 2021
Most problems in a production plant are found out during production and not beforehand
You can't simulate a huge factory where everything has to work together seamlessly, like in a complex gearbox
Planning a new plant without that experience isn't smart it's stupid
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 12, 2021
Yup
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 12, 2021
Exactly
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 12, 2021
If lobbying & lawyers could get u to orbit, Bezos would be on Pluto rn
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Everything SpaceX
@spacex360 · Aug 11, 2021
If Blue Origin spent as much time on *actual* rocket science as they do protesting NASA’s HLS decision, New Glenn would have reached orbit, New Armstrong would be operational and Jeff’s O’Neill colony in space idea would be real…
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 12, 2021
Exactly
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Christian Davenport
@SpaceDavenport · Aug 11, 2021
A Blue Origin spokesperson I spoke with today left open the possibility of taking the HLS fight to the Court of Federal Claims and Bob Smith said in a statement to the Post that BO is “hopeful that NASA will take advantage of our offer” to waive $2 billion in development fees.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 12, 2021
Somehow, this wasn’t convincing …
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TESLARATI
@Teslarati · Aug 11, 2021
Rivian’s $5 billion U.S. plant has Fort Worth, TX as frontrunner teslarati.com/rivian-fort-wo… by @KlenderJoey
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 11, 2021
I’d recommend they get their first plant working. It’s insanely difficult to reach volume production at affordable unit cost.
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TESLARATI
@Teslarati · Aug 11, 2021
Tesla Giga Berlin’s public opposition is starting to decline
teslarati.com/tesla-giga-ber… by @ResidentSponge
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 11, 2021
It’s gonna be awesome
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Everyday Astronaut
@Erdayastronaut · Aug 11, 2021
Harrowing but important words from Elon while standing on top of the orbital launch mount. Part III of my tour of Starbase with @elonmusk is dropping Wednesday!
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 11, 2021
Yup
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 11, 2021
16 flights is extremely unlikely. Starship payload to orbit is ~150 tons , so max of 8 to fill 1200 ton tanks of lunar Starship.
Without flaps & heat shield, Starship is much lighter. Lunar landing legs don’t add much (1/6 gravity). May only need 1/2 full, ie 4 tanker flights.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 11, 2021
However, even if it were 16 flights with docking, this is not a problem. SpaceX did more than 16 orbital flights in first half of 2021 & has docked with Station (much harder than docking with our own ship) over 20 times.
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Christian Davenport
@SpaceDavenport · Aug 11, 2021
Blue Origin just not giving up on the HLS program. Says the GAO’s decision highlights issues that “will prevent the U.S. from landing on the moon” and says it is concerned about SpaceX needing 16 launches, with limited flight readiness reviews, to get Starship to the moon.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 11, 2021
16 flights is extremely unlikely. Starship payload to orbit is ~150 tons , so max of 8 to fill 1200 ton tanks of lunar Starship.
Without flaps & heat shield, Starship is much lighter. Lunar landing legs don’t add much (1/6 gravity). May only need 1/2 full, ie 4 tanker flights.
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Tom Mueller
@lrocket · Aug 10, 2021
I think we developed Falcon 9 and cargo Dragon for less than $1B
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Aug 10, 2021
Yeah
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