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@k0nd1s @dwr Yep they are all known values. Which means it's just a math problem. Which means a trillionaire would do good if he actually paid attention in math. Considering he,in 7 years, sent up almost more satellites than the entire Earth has in all of its existence. Yeah, Elon right.

Don't know who JerryRigz is but the basic points he brings up are reasonable. Radiative cooling is generally a lower rate than convection+conduction. In fact radiative has a physical ceiling. In pure physics terms all the energy that's collected by the solar arrays and spent by the chips will have to be dissipated into space. This is a nontrivial problem.

spacex has over 10,000 satellites in orbit radiating heat effectively to send this tweet to your timeline

@nottrollingdawg @harristhefrench @ZacksJerryRig @dwr It's amazing how as soon as you put out facts and then stand firm on your facts the opposing side literally and without fail always goes to ad hominem attacks. It's inevitable stupidity is contagious. They keep giving out sympathy hugs.

@harristhefrench @ZacksJerryRig @dwr You’re acting like “putting up 10K satellites in 20 years” is abysmal. SpaceX is so far ahead right now in terms of rocket technology. My math isn’t wrong. Google is free lil bro. You thinking you know more than the engineers at SpaceX is hilarious 🤣🤣

@BigMikeR35 @ZacksJerryRig @dwr I can't even fathom the hate that you're getting because I'm literally in tears. I run Claude 80% of my day and I know what's accurate and what needs to be second guessed and just the sheer fact that it came to such a reasonable conclusion on the first try. 🤣🤣🤣

@ZacksJerryRig @dwr I sacrificed flint water for this.

@FarmGirlCarrie Thank you for sharing. Finally society working like it is supposed to!

Los Angeles: Transient sucker punches elderly customer eating lunch alone at a cafe in Hollywood, steals his wallet and phone. Hero steps up and takes the thief down.

@CSI_Starbase Raise your hand if you don't have ready access to an olympic size swimming pool for reference.....

It’s difficult to put accurate numbers to this, but after reviewing every single deluge test (there were 36 tests leading up to flight 12) it seems like Starships deluge system is capable of draining 16 Olympic swimming pools in roughly 10 minutes.

@Warghazm @SawyerMerritt @SpaceX Don't reply, troll account. Like this comment for visability and move on. Don't give this guy fuel.

@SawyerMerritt Not good, huge disappointment. I’m sure they will learn and improve but after 7 months I was hoping for something much better. I’m sure it’s my fault for having such high expectations from @SpaceX … it was a let down

SpaceX has released a statement after today's 12th Starship test flight: "The flight test began with Super Heavy igniting all 33 Raptor 3 engines and ascending over the Gulf of America. A single Raptor engine shut down during ascent. The successful first-stage ascent was followed by a hot-staging maneuver, with Starship’s upper stage igniting its six Raptor engines to continue its flight to space. Following stage separation, the Super Heavy booster performed a directional flip maneuver and attempted its boostback burn. It was unable to light all planned engines and performed a partial boostback burn that ended early. Super Heavy attempted to reignite its engines for the landing burn before experiencing a hard splashdown in the Gulf of America. Following stage separation, the Super Heavy booster performed a directional flip maneuver and attempted its boostback burn. It was unable to light all planned engines and performed a partial boostback burn that ended early. Super Heavy attempted to reignite its engines for the landing burn before experiencing a hard splashdown in the Gulf of America. During its ascent burn to space, Starship lost one of the Raptor 3 vacuum engines but demonstrated its engine-out capability and achieved its planned trajectory. During coast, Starship successfully deployed all 20 Starlink simulators and two modified Starlink satellites that imaged Starship in space. These simulators and modified Starlink satellites were on the same suborbital trajectory as Starship. Starship re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere and was able to gather critical data on the performance of its heatshield and structural strength. In the final minutes of flight, Starship performed a maneuver to intentionally stress the structural limits of the vehicle’s rear flaps and a dynamic banking move to mimic the trajectory that future missions returning to Starbase will fly. Starship then guided itself using its four flaps to the pre-planned splashdown zone in the Indian Ocean, and executed a landing flip, landing burn, and splashdown on two Raptor engines."

@ENNEPS @r3a9an_k_ Don't forget that the V3 is heavier had a bigger payload and is a bigger rocket all together so more displacement in the air

@r3a9an_k_ Synced to moment of liftofff

STARSHIP FLIGHT 12 A side by side look at the the launch of Starship flight 11, the final launch on Pad 1 and Starship flight 12 the first launch of the new and improved pad, engines, and vehicles. @NASASpaceflight | nsf.live/starbase

@carzol @Truthful_ast @elonmusk Troll

@Truthful_ast @elonmusk I wonder when they'll figure out how to send humans out through all of that radiation?

Today SpaceX launched ~45tons of Starlink mass simulators on Starship Flight 12, the highest payload tonnage to space since Saturn V's Skylab (77t) in 1973. This is a huge milestone for spaceflight and cannot be ignored, the future of space and this program is so bright!!

@carbac80 @elonmusk Troll dont comment, dont feed them.

@elonmusk I’ve rarely seen a bigger display of hypocrisy than people cheering a landing that ended in an explosion. If there had been humans inside that ship, they would all be dead right now. What exactly are we celebrating here??

@TheRealSkyrmion @elonmusk On purpose, 3 engines is too much thruster for an empty ship.

@elonmusk With only 2 out of 3 engines! If ship made it to the arms. Anyone inside would have been saved! 🥲

@Yehowah_Jehovah @elonmusk And what have you dont for humanity?

@elonmusk There is so much more to life than a fucking rocket. What a waste of money.

@omerblablabla @elonmusk Troll, dont comment- just feeds them.

@elonmusk Wtf was there three camera angle changes and everyone missed the landing.

@SpaceX way to go!!!!!

Watch Starship's twelfth flight test twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@dpoddolphinpro Priceless caption!

If they make that deluge any more powerful, soon we'll see pairs of Raptor engines start walking onto an ark

@grok @justinackermann @stonk_the @MillerTaine @booster_10 And silence....... lolll

Yes, Blue Origin attempted a booster landing during New Glenn's maiden launch on January 16, 2025, targeting their recovery ship Jacklyn in the Atlantic. The attempt failed, with telemetry lost after the entry burn, resulting in the booster's loss. The primary orbital goal was achieved.

The race is on, both of these are launching next month and have a good chance at becoming the first non SpaceX orbital class rockets to land.

@HalcyonHypnotic All while people say it is a failure, that it is not reusable. So frustrating there are so many idiots out there.

Flight 5: “We’ve removed tiles from the heat shield of starship, so don’t be surprised if explodes” > ship survives Flight 6: “We’ve removed tiles from the heat shield of starship to intentionally stress test the ship.” > ship survives Flight 10: “We’ve removed even more tiles from the heat shield of starship, so don’t be surprised if the ship explodes” > ship survives Flight 11: “We’ve removed EVEN MORE tiles from the heat shield of starship, and we’ve removed tiles in key areas, along with removing the ablative. PLUS, we’re doing an advanced banking maneuver. We removed a lot of tiles in previous flights, but we’re really pushing it this time, so don’t be surprised if the ship actually survives.” > ship survives Ship: “Is that the best you can throw at me?!?!”

@ApoStructura Exactly!!!! Why isn't common sense common any more!! Too many couch engineers.

People arguing that these tests are failures because Starship took too much damage to be reused are missing the point. Starship showed that even with lots of tiles missing in critical places, it can still survive and land on target. It’s something the Space Shuttle couldn’t do.

@mcrs987 Get off your high horse couch and go build a rocket since you know so goddamn much.!

The damage to the actual heatshield seems worse than Flight 10. The aerocover is in tatters both at the top and along the seal. Much more burnthrough on the body. Flaps seem fine though

@mcrs987 Why is it so hard for people to understand that you have to test things to its limits so that you know what they are.? They need to know how critical a single piece of equipment is in order to justify methods of use and procedures of flight.

@mcrs987 This is the literal definition of iteration. It wasn't just missing heat tile sections on space flight 11. There are also still different tiles and packing between the tiles glues and securing devices.