Lars Blackmore
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I can’t overstate how valuable Starlink is for us in figuring out how to survive entry - an amazing diagnostic tool that no-one has previously had available
Reliable high-speed, low-latency internet around the world—even while traveling at 27,000 km/h through a plasma field 🛰️🚀
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Today we see whether a new way of flying (falling?) is possible. This has been years in the making, and is a big step towards 100% reusable rockets that can take us to the Moon and Mars. May not work first time, so wish us luck!
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The 100th Falcon landing, on the anniversary of landing
#1
no less! Huge credit to the teams that took something that worked *most* of the time a few years ago and made it a normal and reliable part of launch.
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Amazing to see “congrats SpaceX” trending 😀 The whole team has been unbelievable up to and through this flight. Thanks to all of you!
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Five years ago we gambled on an entirely new way of entering a vehicle from orbit (flaps, not wings) and until Flight 4 there was still a chance that this method, and the ship that was designed around it, would fundamentally not work (2/3)
Somewhat belated on account of my appendix getting deleted…but landing Starship on the ocean feels as significant as Falcon 9’s first landing (1/3)
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If this works, it’ll be the craziest piece of rocket gymnastics since landing Falcon 9
SN8 Starship with flaps & nosecone should be done in about a week. Then static fire, checkouts, static fire, fly to 60,000 ft & back.
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First time flying people on a flight-proven Falcon! And Dragon!
Crew Dragon Endeavour S/C Sep!
That was a super smooth countdown and launch!
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Flight 4 showed that the gamble paid off, and it feels like only a matter of time until we iterate ourselves to a fully and rapidly reusable rocket (3/3)
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Somewhat belated on account of my appendix getting deleted…but landing Starship on the ocean feels as significant as Falcon 9’s first landing (1/3)
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Really hoping we get there this time! If we can survive hypersonic entry, we know from our suborbital hops that we can take the ship the rest of the way to landing!
If Starship manages to make it all the way to reentry, we'll collect valuable data on reentry at hypersonic speeds, or more than 5 times the speed of sound
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One more step!
LAUNCH! Starship SN5 has launched on a 150 meter test hop at SpaceX Boca Chica.
Under the power of Raptor SN27, SN5 has conducted what looks like a successful flight!
Listen to the SpaceXers cheer!
Mary (
@BocaChicaGal
) filming history!
Livestream:
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I hope that one day ten flights seems like nothing - but today, this is a huge milestone. Watch live now at
This will be the tenth flight for the Falcon 9 first stage rocket booster supporting this mission
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When it looks like bad CGI, but isn’t...
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I’m told a good landing is one you can walk away from so...
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Our recent Starship flights have reminded me what a luxury it is to figure out landing iteratively. It's an entirely different ballgame for my friends at
@NASAJPL
, who have to get it right first time, every time. Best of luck to you all!
It’s the final
#CountdownToMars
! Watch mission control live as
@NASAPersevere
lands.
ETA 12:55pm PT (3:55pm ET, 20:55 GMT)
Live:
360:
Español:
Toolkit:
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SN8 showed that our subsonic bellyflop works, but touchdown was a bit more explody than we wanted. Today we see if SN9 can make it all the way to a soft landing. Watch live now!
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Getting close!
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For those that thought F9 landing was getting boring...
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So happy to have landing be the least badass thing happening today!
Falcon 9 booster has landed on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship!
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Wow! Outstanding work
@TrevorMahlmann
Omg. Only image I had in my mind for SN8 & it worked perfectly!
Big thx to
@Erdayastronaut
,
@SpacePadreIsle
@considercosmos
&
@thejackbeyer
for helping me make the trip to TX/a huge success🚀
⚙️/⬇️/🖼:
2021 starship calendar:
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First time for a double catch!
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Excited for our first California rocket landing! Launch is 7:21pm PST Sunday night. Last time we launched at dusk, most of SoCal thought aliens were invading. Add loud sonic booms from landing and…let’s see what happens!
#SpaceX
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We’re shooting for 3/3
#FalconHeavy
booster landings today! Watch at 5pm PST as we try to repeat this:
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wow...
star hopper is disappointed🔥
starship sn9 leaves a tornado of fire and sends COPVs soaring in its demise
⚙️/⬇️/🖼:
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Amazing work
@TrevorMahlmann
!
Closer crops of two of my favorite frames from the adventure to capture the Falcon 9 this morning in front of the Sun!☀️
(left)⚙️/⬇️/🖼:
(right) ⚙️/⬇️/🖼:
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...and not just 100 tonnes to *space*. With reusability and in-space refilling, the whole solar system will be opened up!
If you think commercial space is getting exciting now... just wait until the
@SpaceX
Starship starts flying. It's a 100% reusable rocket designed to launch over 100 tons or 100 people to space at one time and will dramatically reduce the cost of getting to space!
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It’s Dragon Day! Today is the maiden flight of our first astronaut-carrying spacecraft. This has taken years of work by 100s (1000s?) of the smartest people I know. Launch is at 11:49pm PST - watch live at
SpaceX and
@NASA
have completed thousands of hours of tests, analyses, and reviews in preparation for Crew Dragon’s first test flight to the
@space_station
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Not a bad-looking vehicle 🙂
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Huge congrats to the Dragon team! It’s not every day you get to explode a Falcon on purpose - for the most badass experiment ever
Abort - as planned - event:
Dragon escape.
Falcon 9 boom.
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the real inspiration for the Starship bellyflop:
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Why the Falcon Heavy centre core didn't land. Note ignition fluid is not the same as propellant
@kerrbones
@nextspaceflight
Not enough ignition fluid to light the outer two engines after several three engine relights. Fix is pretty obvious.
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Looks pretty great - not long until we see how it flies!
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Seems like a good time to start working on landing BFR 🙂
A lake on Mars!!
BREAKING:
@ESA
may have just found the first present-day body of liquid water on Mars
Got questions? We’ve got answers, ask away!
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So what’s the verdict? Rocket gymnastics less or more crazy than Falcon landing?
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We're aiming to launch our first reused rocket tomorrow! Launch window opens at 3:27pm PST.
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That would be amazing!
@larsblackmore
And now I want David Attenborough to narrate SpaceX launches! 🤣
(sound on)
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Huge condolences to
@TeamSpaceIL
on their Moon landing attempt. The sad faces in Mission Control bring back many painful memories :( Best of luck for next time!
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Huge congrats to
@Astro_Kayla
-
@Cambridge_Uni
engineering for the win!
JUST IN: Kayla Barron of
@NASA_Astronauts
is assigned to serve as a mission specialist for NASA’s
@SpaceX
Crew-3 mission. Launching later this fall, the mission will be Barron's 1st spaceflight!
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A wild one from 2017!
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Pretty amazing stuff from the fairing team!
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Huge shout to all the guys that raced a hurricane to secure a just-landed rocket...and won! Hope you're all safe:
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Huge congrats
@DrSwatiMohan
@icancallubetty
@cotatoc
@BobbyBraun
@ekhines
@MigOnMars
@LongHairNasaGuy
@FredOfMars
and so many others!
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Our launch just freaked out a whole bunch of Angelenos :)
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@BarackObama
@NASA
@MarsRovers
Not only Americans! These rovers were what got me into landing spacecraft in the first place
#GoodbyeOppy
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Almost forgot to thank the Lucky Landing Shirt for the successful Starship landing! And of course its creator, my friend
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@elonmusk
@OfficialABQ
my opinions on roundabouts may have been coloured by growing up next to this thing of beauty
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I knew I should have stuck with the rap career 😢
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Can confirm that
@Laur_Ly
is indeed the coolest
Representation Matters
#LaunchAmerica
@NASAKennedy
@NASA
How can I find her twitter handle? Please Help!!! My daughter Ryan said she is the coolest girl ever
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“
@SpaceX
: Falcon 9 Block 5 first stage has landed on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship. ” Happy Friday!
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Very happy that
@NASA
decided to fly on one of our flight-proven rockets for the first time!
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In a statement, SpaceX confirms rumors that the center booster core from the Falcon Heavy Arabsat-6A mission toppled over the weekend; crews could not secure the booster on the droneship in rough seas with swells as high as 10 ft (3 m). Doesn’t affect future missions.
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Live now for SN11 launch: Sorry about the fog!
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Best of luck to all my friends and ex-colleagues on tomorrow’s
#mars2020
launch!
@icancallubetty
@LongHairNasaGuy
@MigOnMars
@DrSwatiMohan
@cotatoc
@tweetsoutloud
and many others that are too cool for twitter
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Huge congratulations to the Dragon team!
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How much pain can we compress into two minutes of video?
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Oh - and there's a rocket landing too :) Keeping the droneship busy!
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Safe travels
@Astro_Woody
! Not the first time convex optimisation flies a spacecraft but maybe the first time a convex optimisation *expert* does?
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30 minutes to launch for our new many-times-reusable Falcon 9. "The end of the beginning" according to
@arstechnica
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Dammit that’s better than my one
I have a SpaceX joke which I’m happy to say has landed more often than not!
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@NASASpaceflight
Ooh thanks for the clip Chris! The livestream was too challenging for the grandparents, now they’ll get to see it haha
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Tomorrow's
#SpaceX
launch has first daytime land landing attempt. Should look pretty spectacular :) At 7am PST here:
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@Cmdr_Hadfield
@SpaceX
Great minds think alike!
I’m told a good landing is one you can walk away from so...
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Pretty sweet picture of first and second stage engine plumes interacting:
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Excited about
@SpaceX
's payload today! We're launching
@NASA_TESS
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Man...I really thought we were going to land
#Falcon9
today. Thanks to the many ladies and gents who got us one step closer.
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Attempting Falcon's second landing at Cape Canaveral tonight. Liftoff at 9:45pm. Watch launch and landing live at
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