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@imPenny2x @SecDuffyNASA They won’t. SpaceX is moving like lightning compared to the rest of the space industry. Moreover, Starship will end up doing the whole Moon mission. Mark my words.

@SpaceInvestor_D @danaen803 It’ll take Blue Origin a century to launch 51,000 satellites!

Kardashev II loading… SpaceX filed for 1M orbital data center satellites Starcloud (NVIDIA-backed) filed for 88K sats Blue Origin just filed for 51K sats. These aren’t sci-fi sketches, they’re FCC filings. First nodes of a solar-harnessing swarm are deploying soon.

@SawyerMerritt @SpaceX So why do we need Orion now?

NEWS: NASA is planning a bigger @SpaceX Moon mission role using Starship, in a massive blow to Boeing. With the new proposal, Boeing's SLS would no longer be used to boost Orion close to the moon. Instead, Starship and Orion would dock in Earth orbit, giving Starship the pivotal role of propelling the capsule to the moon’s orbit, before taking astronauts down to the surface. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Kind of. Quantity has a quality of its own. 534 reflights of an orbital heavy lift rocket is a lot different from a test program. Yes the Shuttle was groundbreaking but it was fatally flawed and didn’t land propulsively. Starship has a chance of being the first fully rapidly reusable rocket system, the cheapest per kg AND the most powerful ever.

@ApoStructura Let me introduce you to DC-XA and Shuttle who did these things before SpaceX existed: SpaceX was not the 1st to do these things with the exception of catching the booster

We act as if everything SpaceX does is revolutionary because it’s basically true

The secret plan is out! Two great articles today about our plan to capture a small asteroid and bring it into Earth orbit. The concept is part of our New Moon mission, which explores relocating a small near-Earth asteroid into a controlled orbit as the first step toward building industrial infrastructure in space. Our team has been developing the key technologies for this approach for years, including capture mechanisms to constrain and move small asteroids and orbital debris. Accessing materials already in space could eventually enable a new generation of industries beyond Earth. If you're interested in the future of space resources, these articles are worth a read. hashtag#space hashtag#asteroidmining hashtag#spacetechnology hashtag#spacex hashtag#venture

🧵 1/14: Just days after Paul Ehrlich (the man whose 1968 book “The Population Bomb” predicted billions would starve) passed away, it’s the perfect moment to celebrate the scientist who proved Ehrlich and other doomsayers spectacularly wrong. Meet Norman Borlaug, the Iowa farm boy who launched the Green Revolution and quite literally saved a billion lives. This is the ultimate story of human ingenuity triumphing over scarcity.

@is_OwenLewis Norman Borlaug should be on Mount Rushmore. Maybe the greatest human ever.

@peterrhague And they're just getting started.

They have put over 10,000 commercial satellites into orbit. Falcon 9 now flies more missions each year than the ostensibly reusable Shuttle did in 30. They are the first to recover both stages of a rocket from orbit. Yes, they are obviously revolutionary, don’t be salty.

The U.S. military is always terrified that the GPS system (which is 12K miles away) can be jammed/spoofed. Interestingly, researchers at Ohio State University discovered they could use Starlink’s signals as a stealth navigation system. Cos Starlink satellites are in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) & fly so fast, their doppler shift is incredibly predictable. By just listening to the pings w/o even having an account, a receiver can calculate its position on Earth within 7.7 meters. This effectively creates a backup GPS that is almost impossible to jam cos there are 1000s of transmitters instead of just 31.

On 17 March 1958, the U.S. Navy launched Vanguard 1 from Cape Canaveral’s LC-18 aboard a Vanguard TV-3BU rocket. It became the 4th artificial satellite, the first solar-powered spacecraft, and today remains the oldest man-made object still in orbit. 🚀 @ccspacemuseum

I just hope when Jared is President he nominates Butch Wilmore as NASA Admin!

Falcon 9 now in parking orbit. There are now 10020 Starlinks in orbit (although 25 of them are still attached to the Falcon 9 for another 50 min or so, until the stage's circularization burn and satellite deployment).

@TheOldManPar KSC is just 39A&B right? The shuttle landing strip?

The truth is that after Artemis II, you may as well call it Kennedy SpaceX Center. They will be the only ones to launch from there for quite a while until Artemis III flies.

A 2.5-second rocket flight that heralded decades of discovery in space! Today marks 100 years since the first successful test of a liquid-fueled rocket. Robert H. Goddard's achievement would have appeared unimpressive by most measures: His rocket flew just 41 feet in the air, landing in a nearby cabbage patch. Liquid-propelled rocketry has been the backbone of spaceflight ever since. 📷 by Esther Goddard on March 16, 1926 (Clark University Archive)

'Shiny' geometric object spotted on Mars sparks call for NASA probe trib.al/RuMbw6n

For years, I held my tongue about the 2020 election. I was cautious and, like many, was forced to censor myself so I wouldn’t be pegged as unpatriotic or an ultra-MAGA supporter. But no more. In my opinion (and I have a right to my opinion), the 2020 and 2022 elections were rigged. I was one of the 36% of Democrats who believed that. I admit I had no evidence, but I have common sense. This is why I believe it. We have been asking for election integrity for years, and now that it’s here, some people are against it? It’s overdue, and if this doesn’t pass, it will be the biggest blow to trust in our election process. There is only one reason anyone wouldn’t want this to pass, and that is because they know the 2020 election was rigged to try to beat the current president, and it will be harder to cheat. There was never a thorough audit of what happened in 2020. They did a half-hearted effort and then told us to “be quiet. There’s nothing to see here” when we all saw irregularities that night. Thirty-six percent of Democrats (I was one of them) believed something was wrong that night when six swing states had Trump either leading or taking over, they closed at the same time, boxes got pulled from under tables, Republican poll watchers got told to leave, and we woke up the next morning to see Biden ahead by just enough. But most of that 36% were okay with it because their guy won. It still wasn’t right. In one county, 130,000 votes were cast for Biden in a row, not one vote for Trump. That is statistically impossible in a part of that state where voters were polled at 70(Biden)/30(Trump), and they really want me to believe that Trump didn’t get one vote out of that number? We had ballots from New York being sent to Pennsylvania, as admitted by one driver who was told to do so, and it’s highly likely that was where the illegal immigrants came into play. We literally had a truckload of votes from a red area dumped in a ditch. They were stuffing ballot boxes with bags of ballots, and they told us it never happened, when even Democrats were caught two years later in their own primaries doing it to each other. This is a fact. In another Democrat-only election, they found a thumb drive that altered the election results, causing a judge to reverse the results. This is a fact. They delayed any real audit of what happened, so most of the evidence of it could be hidden. Then they tried to shame anyone who questioned it. The SAVE ACT must pass, or I will never have faith in our voting system again. It is worth it. Our election process is the most important aspect of being American. If that isn’t secure, we fall to absolute corruption. That has nothing to do with MAGA! It has everything to do with being an American who cares about election integrity. I want to win or lose knowing our system is secure, and we should take every measure to ensure this.

I just watched Part 2 of @CSI_Starbase excellent Stage Zero 2.0 series! But Apollo, I hear you asking, how did you do that, given it's not on YouTube yet? Ahh, gotta be a Patreon member - go now! patreon.com/c/CSI_Starbase/

@BellikOzan @StormSilvawalk1 Exactly. All that matters financially is that the cost of building, launching and operating the satellites is less than the revenue they generate over their useful lifetime.

@StormSilvawalk1 I don't think F9 internal cost is very relevant to what they're trying to do with Starship and v3 Starlink and AI sats, which are the main drivers of the valuation. Whether it's 13 or 17 (or even 10 or 20) won't make much of a difference in the long term.

We actually won't know if SpaceX's IPO is a bubble until we see the actual internal cost of a Falcon 9 launch. If it's above $15M USD (not including Starlink satellites) I think not only is it a bubble but arguably the entire space industry also is.

All #ArtemisII Flight Readiness teams polled GO for launch!!! On track for roll out next week (the 19th), targeting the April launch window starting April 1st!!! A day time launch!!! (April 2nd is also an option) Let’s go!!!

@bscholl Creating barriers for competitors seems to be the main use case for lobbying.

Companies should fire any lobbyist caught trying to use regulation to hamstring their competition. Disgusting.