Matthew Rowan

BOOSTER TOUCHDOWN! New Glenn returns to its blue origin.

A Life of Faith, A Legacy That Endures: Remembering Charlie Kirk

First views of Earth's polar regions from Dragon

A couple reflections on the quantum computing breakthrough we just announced... Most of us grew up learning there are three main types of matter that matter: solid, liquid, and gas. Today, that changed. After a nearly 20 year pursuit, we’ve created an entirely new state of matter, unlocked by a new class of materials, topoconductors, that enable a fundamental leap in computing. It powers Majorana 1, the first quantum processing unit built on a topological core. We believe this breakthrough will allow us to create a truly meaningful quantum computer not in decades, as some have predicted, but in years. The qubits created with topoconductors are faster, more reliable, and smaller. They are 1/100th of a millimeter, meaning we now have a clear path to a million-qubit processor. Imagine a chip that can fit in the palm of your hand yet is capable of solving problems that even all the computers on Earth today combined could not! Sometimes researchers have to work on things for decades to make progress possible. It takes patience and persistence to have big impact in the world. And I am glad we get the opportunity to do just that at Microsoft. This is our focus: When productivity rises, economies grow faster, benefiting every sector and every corner of the globe. It’s not about hyping tech; it’s about building technology that truly serves the world.

Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!

More views of Falcon’s 100th successful flight so far this year

Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!

Thousands of distinct vehicle and pad criteria had to be met prior to catching the Super Heavy booster. Thanks to the tireless work of SpaceX engineers, we succeeded with catch on our first attempt.

Video from a different vantage point shows Starship Booster never came even close to hitting the tower. As far as I can tell, this was as perfect of a Mechazilla catch as SpaceX could have hoped for.

Starship rocket booster caught by tower

Polaris crew is home safe & sound!

The Polaris Dawn spacewalk is now complete, marking the first time commercial astronauts have completed a spacewalk from a commercial spacecraft! Congratulations to @rookisaacman, @Gillis_SarahE, @KiddPoteet, @annawmenon, and to all the SpaceX teams!

All 19 people in space right now! 👨‍🚀👨‍🚀👨‍🚀👨‍🚀👩‍🚀👨‍🚀👩‍🚀👨‍🚀👨‍🚀👩‍🚀👨‍🚀👨‍🚀👩‍🚀👨‍🚀👨‍🚀👩‍🚀👨‍🚀👨‍🚀👨‍🚀 After the Soyuz launch, this is a new historical record for the number of people in space! via whoisinspace.com #Space #Spaceflight

A new record has been set for the most people in Earth orbit at one time: 19 International Space Station: Matthew Dominick Michael Barratt Jeanette Epps Alexander Grebenkin Oleg Kononenko Tracy Caldwell Dyson Nikolai Chub Butch Wilmore Suni Williams Soyuz MS-26, en route to ISS: Don Pettit Aleksey Ovchinin Ivan Vagner Dragon Resilience, free-flying Polaris Dawn mission: Jared Isaacman Scott Poteet Sarah Gillis Anna Menon Tiangong Space Station: Ye Guangfu Li Cong Li Guangsu

Despite loss of many tiles and a damaged flap, Starship made it all the way to a soft landing in the ocean! Congratulations @SpaceX team on an epic achievement!!

Targeting Thursday, June 6 for Starship’s fourth flight test. A 120-minute launch window opens at 7:00 a.m. CT → spacex.com/launches

Starship is ready to fly

Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the Just Read the Instructions droneship, completing Falcon’s 300th landing!

The Polaris Dawn Dragon is headed to vacuum chamber testing! SpaceX teams celebrate Dragon's departure with @rookisaacman, @KiddPoteet, @Gillis_SarahE, and @annawmenon ahead of launching to orbit this summer

At 5000 tons, Starship is the largest flying object ever made. Thrust is more than double the Saturn V moon rocket. It is the first spaceship design capable of making life multiplanetary. Goal of the next mission is to make it through the meteorically extreme heat of reentry.