We’re working toward qualifying our fleet of Falcon boosters and fairings to support 40 missions each. Increasing Falcon's flight count provides valuable information on repeated reuse, a critical element for making life multiplanetary with Starship

Unbelievable video of a wedge tornado in Nebraska. Video from Scott Hollinger.

According to NASA's Amit Kshatriya, SpaceX is working toward the fourth Starship flight test before the end of May. Says IFT3 was 'a great success.'

NASA's Amit Kshatriya says at an advisory committee meeting this morning that the agency expects SpaceX to attempt its next Starship/Super Heavy test flight by the end of May.

An old email, sent to SpaceX employees by Elon Musk

[Thursday, April 15, 2010]

'There is now hope for bright future in space exploration.'

'Handing over Earth orbit transport to American commercial companies, overseen of course by NASA and the FAA, will free up NASA resources…

Here is an animation of all 20 support arms on the #Starship Orbital Launch Mount actuating. Before launch, these arms hold the #SuperHeavy booster and transfer the weight into the surrounding steel structure. I have removed the steel structure for a unique perspective.

300 rockets
2,700 Merlin engines
15,000 metric tons

That's a lot of recycling in less than a decade.

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

Sounding a little more like yourself, #Voyager1 .
For the first time since November, Voyager 1 is returning useable data about the health and status of its onboard engineering systems. Next step: Enable the spacecraft to begin returning science data again: go.nasa.gov/49PQ6bh

A day late… but I took this photo five years ago on the morning of our first in-flight abort capsule static fire test. That test did not go as planned as the vehicle experienced catastrophic failure during superdraco ignition.

The following days and weeks were some of the

One year since first flight test of Starship.

Each successive launch has gone farther, and with more flights coming soon, we're rapidly building towards a fully reusable future

Ellie in Space 🚀💫 Tom Mueller As it turns out, future versions of Raptor will ultimately exceed 700k lb-F!

Honing T/W, Isp and reliability are much harder than thrust though. Rocket engines desperately want to explode.

NASA is quietly considering major changes to Artemis III.

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Since its first mission in November 2020, this single first stage has launched eight astronauts and more than 500 satellites, totaling 261+ metric tons to orbit in under four years

Falcon 9 lands on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship – completing the first 20th launch and landing of a booster!

Whaaaaaaaaat 🤯

This Electron has been to space and back. Now it's getting ready to go again.

For the first time, a recovered Electron stage has been returned to the production line to undergo final acceptance and qualification testing in preparation for reflight.

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The Moon's shadow, or umbra, is pictured covering portions of Canada and the U.S. as the space station soared into the solar eclipse from 261 miles above on Aug. 8, 2024. More pix... flic.kr/s/aHBqjBkQGq

18:02 on Monday April 8th, over North America

View of the solar eclipse from a Starlink satellite on orbit