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Everyday Astronaut
@Erdayastronaut · Feb 21, 2020
Think the overall look will generally stay the same though?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Feb 22, 2020
It’s slightly better
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Niche Gamer
@nichegamer · Feb 22, 2020
Twitter Experimenting with "Harmfully Misleading" Warnings on Tweets Leaks, Community Voting in Consideration nichegamer.com/2020/02/21/twi…
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Feb 22, 2020
Definitely worth trying imo
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Feb 21, 2020
Active ride height & active damping are game-changing for a truck or any car with a high max/min weight ratio
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Feb 21, 2020
Btw, in some prior tweets I’d said production Cybertruck would be ~80” wide (vs ~84” body width at unveil). This is slightly too small. Will be closer to 82”, but come standard with upper laser blade lights.
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TESLARATI
@Teslarati · Feb 21, 2020
Edmunds talks Tesla Cybertruck and its industry appeal amid growing competition teslarati.com/edmunds-talks-…
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Feb 21, 2020
Active ride height & active damping are game-changing for a truck or any car with a high max/min weight ratio
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Feb 21, 2020
Science has gone too far
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Feb 21, 2020
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Feb 20, 2020
Replying to @flcnhvy
F9 iteration slowed down as payloads became too important to risk. Little change is expected going forward with F9/FH or Dragon. Starship production & thus iterative improvement will be much faster than Falcon. Driving hard for fully reusable orbital flight this year!
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Pranay Pathole
@PPathole · Feb 20, 2020
I wonder if having the O2 header tank in the tip is strategic to allow the boil-off to be consumed by the occupants? Conversely, keeping the CH4 header tank and associated piping away from the occupants is better for safety.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Feb 20, 2020
It’s mostly to balance the ship during entry. After delivering satellites, the front is light & back is heavy due to engines & landing legs.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Feb 20, 2020
LOX
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Feb 20, 2020
Sorry, meant to say LOX header tank in tip of nose. CH4 main tank is above LOX main.
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John Hanzl
@JohnHanzl · Feb 20, 2020
@elonmusk quick n simple to answer. CH4 or LOX on top?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Feb 20, 2020
LOX
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Feb 20, 2020
Hardest problem by far is building the production system of something this big. 2nd hardest is achieving full & rapid reuse with payload to orbit of ~2%.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Feb 20, 2020
These problems are fundamentally intertwined. Building many rockets allows for successive approximation. Progress in any given technology is simply # of iterations * progress between iterations.
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Eric Berger
@SciGuySpace · Feb 20, 2020
SpaceX appears to be making excellent progress with its newest Starship prototype, SN01.
Rafael@fael097· Feb 20, 2020We have a nosecone!🚀Keeping track of all this fast-paced work should be a full-time job, but I got you covered, update v7 is out!
Pictures taken by Mary @BocaChicaGal for @NASASpaceflight Gene @SpacePadreIsle, and also @ElonMusk aka memelord
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Feb 20, 2020
Hardest problem by far is building the production system of something this big. 2nd hardest is achieving full & rapid reuse with payload to orbit of ~2%.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Feb 20, 2020
Replying to @flcnhvy
Probably
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Sydney EV 🔋☀️
@sydney_ev · Feb 20, 2020
Will starship be moved to launch pad vertically? What is NASA doing with their old Shuttle and Saturn crawler carriers?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Feb 20, 2020
Attach wheels to the landing legs & tow Starship to the launch pad
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Pope of Muskanity
@RationalEtienne · Feb 20, 2020
Rate my meme, master Elon!
If I cannot see the coronavirus, the coronavirus cannot see me.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Feb 20, 2020
I rate it two Bugblatter Beasts of Traal up!
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Feb 20, 2020
High bay for stacking Starship engine bay, propellant tanks & fairing (fka nosecone) sections is almost done!
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Feb 20, 2020
Replying to @stephenross89
The whole nose tip has to have heat shielding for atmospheric entry at Mach 25+ anyway, so is effectively already insulated well in orbit
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Toby Li
@tobyliiiiiiiiii · Feb 20, 2020
Will starship really have these large windows? Wouldn’t it be a structural hazard and let in solar radiation?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Feb 20, 2020
There will be a common area in the forward section with a big window like this. It will be a lot heavier than steel, but not dangerous. Consider astronauts on the moon with a very thin windowed helmet. They were fine.
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Pranay Pathole
@PPathole · Feb 20, 2020
How much will moving of the header tanks to the nose will impact the pressurized living volume of starship.?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Feb 20, 2020
Header tanks are only ~2% of main tank volume, so not a big deal. Pressurized volume is still ~1000 cubic meters.
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Everyday Astronaut
@Erdayastronaut · Feb 20, 2020
So is there still a common bulkhead in the header tanks in the nosecone like you mentioned to me at the Starship event? If the walls are the tanks, how do attach the thrusters? Will they stick out a bit or have their on inset pod?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Feb 20, 2020
O2 header tank is tip of nosecone, CH4 header is in the main CH4 tank
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