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Everyday Astronaut
@Erdayastronaut · Jun 8, 2020
How different will Lunar Starship be from a standard atmospheric Starship? Like those thrusters on top seem like a pretty big shift from a standard Starship... are they still methalox? Related to SuperDraco in any way?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 8, 2020
Forward thrusters are to stabilize ship when landing in high winds. If goal is max payload to moon per ship, no heatshield or flaps or big gas thruster packs are needed. No need to bring early ships back. They can serve as part of moon base alpha.
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Everyday Astronaut
@Erdayastronaut · Jun 8, 2020
🤯 NOW WE’RE TALKING!!! THIS is how you make progress!!! May the most innovative and cost effective companies win, and all others will make huge improvements while competing too! WIN : WIN!!! 🚀
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 8, 2020
Absolutely
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 8, 2020
Replying to @JimBridenstine
Outcome-based contracting with multiple competitors is vastly better than cost-plus (especially if sole-sourced), as the former rewards results & latter rewards waste. Outcome contracting should be applied broadly within government. The difference in results will be incredible.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 8, 2020
Wow, this is extremely important!!
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Lance Stewart
@Lance210 · Jun 8, 2020
Tesla Drives Itself Prank in Grandmom 🤣 @elonmusk
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 8, 2020
🤣
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Pranay Pathole
@PPathole · Jun 7, 2020
People: Autopilot will never be safe!
@Tesla Autopilot: *avoids a 🐷 at night*
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 8, 2020
Autopilot prime directive is: don’t crash. What seems fast to humans is slow to a computer. 360 degree low light vision & sonar, plus forward radar enable to be superhuman. Upcoming software upgrades will increasingly show the potential.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 8, 2020
Stankonia at
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Jon Emmerich
@emmerichvideo · Jun 8, 2020
@Tesla @elonmusk Had a great time camping in the #Model3. Just one bit of feedback: it'd be nice if the screen turned off after a given amount of time instead of playing the campground animation all night. #ilovethiscar
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 8, 2020
Good point
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World of Engineering
@engineers_feed · Jun 8, 2020
There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 8, 2020
And those who weren’t expecting a ternary joke
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Latest in space
@latestinspace · Jun 7, 2020
Incredibly sharp image of the northern polar crater on Mars, captured by @ESA's Mars Express
#space
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 7, 2020
Mars has an amazing amount of water ice
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Everyday Astronaut
@Erdayastronaut · Jun 7, 2020
Holy moly!!! How tall will the building be? 80m tall-ish? 🤔
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 7, 2020
81m
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Everyday Astronaut
@Erdayastronaut · Jun 7, 2020
I think based on renders it makes sense to stack SH/SS on the pad. No way they’re rolling out a 120m tall rocket vertically to the pad on that road 😬
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 7, 2020
Yeah. Even stacking on the pad will be quite an adventure!
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Everyday Astronaut
@Erdayastronaut · Jun 7, 2020
It’s gotta be the most inside out rocket factory ever. Start making rockets. Then make the factory. It’ll be a paradigm shift once it’s all optimized and figured out!
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 7, 2020
Creating the production system is >1000% harder than building one rocket. This is the truly hard thing.
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Everyday Astronaut
@Erdayastronaut · Jun 7, 2020
I can’t wait to visit it again! TONS has changed since I saw it last in September 🤯
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 7, 2020
It’s insane
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Michael Baylor
@MichaelBaylor_ · Jun 7, 2020
Are you thinking Boca, 39A, or an ocean platform for the first Super Heavy launches?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 7, 2020
Pursuing all three. Hard to say right now.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 6, 2020
Starship Production Complex
Boca Chica, Texas
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 7, 2020
Gateway to Mars
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Renata Konkoly
@RenataKonkoly · Jun 7, 2020
reddit.com/r/spacex/comme… (2/2)
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 7, 2020
Lot has happened since then!
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AChA
@alvianchoiri · Jun 7, 2020
Well that's for Starship which is the second stage. Super Heavy is the first stage, and its mostly a propellant tank
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 7, 2020
3600 tons of propellant, almost 80% of which is densified liquid oxygen
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 7, 2020
Replying to @flcnhvy
Haha true
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r/SpaceX
@rSpaceX · Jun 6, 2020
The @SpaceX Software Team has started to answer the questions! Check them here:
reddit.com/r/spacex/comme…
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 7, 2020
SpaceX Software AMA
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