Aaron Burnett
@aaronburnett · Sep 28, 2026
For over a year, experts (desperate to appear relevant) went out of their way to highlight that starship had never been orbital and that starship success should have a big asterisk as a result. Meanwhile, anyone paying attention knew that “going orbital” was relatively trivial
SpaceX@SpaceX· Sep 28, 2026Starship performs its orbital insertion burn and enters orbit of Earth for the first time
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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06:41 PM · September 28, 2026 · 51.3K views
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