maximum @maximumxspace

@Danishkfd1 Yeah, you might be right.

UPD: SpaceX is about to attempt something no rocket has ever done: catch an orbital-class upper stage out of the sky. Flight 14 will send Ship 41 all the way around Earth - the first fully orbital Starship flight - then try to land it back on the launch tower's arms. Why now: Ship 40's splashdown on Flight 13 was precise enough that Musk confirmed it "would have been caught by the tower arms." That cleared the engineering bar SpaceX set before risking a catch over land. The hard part isn't the booster (already caught multiple times since 2024). It's the ship - it has to bleed off full orbital velocity, survive plasma reentry, then flip from a horizontal belly-flop to a vertical hover with centimeter-level precision between two steel arms. Booster 21 will still splash down in the Gulf - no tower catch for the booster this time, until SpaceX nails down what went wrong on Flight 13's landing burn. If it works: full reusability gets real. If it doesn't: still the most ambitious catch attempt in spaceflight history.

SpaceX @SpaceX

4 days ago

The SpaceX Recovery team is still working to recover Flight 13’s Starship from the Indian Ocean. They’ve been overcoming challenging conditions and increasingly rough seas as they attempt to guide the 52m long spacecraft to port

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@Rainmaker1973 ufo 🙄

Yes, SpaceX's FCC filing for Flight 14 explicitly states the booster will RTLS this time. Musk said on the earnings call they're also going for the ship catch on the same flight. So: first double-catch attempt. High confidence on paper, but V3 booster's landing burn just had an engine relight issue on Flight 13, so it's not a lock.

Slightly different picture, flight 12's booster crashed after engine failures. Flight 13's booster didn't crash, it hit the Gulf hard (only 5/13 engines relit), but that was a deliberate water landing, not a catch attempt. SpaceX is keeping the new V3 booster on splashdowns until it proves the landing burn is reliable. That's exactly why Flight 14's booster is staying in the Gulf too - one more data point before they risk it near the tower.

@NastyJermball yep, you don't say 😂

Space Highlights🌌: An Earth-like planet is roughly 10 billion times fainter than its star, and sits right next to it in the sky. That's the problem NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory has to solve just to take one picture. The fix: a coronagraph that has to hold contrast at 1 part in 10 billion, on a telescope stable to the width of an atom. They're also still studying a 50+ meter starshade - a giant flower-shaped spacecraft that flies 100,000 km away just to cast a precise shadow. The payoff isn't the photo. It's the spectrum hidden in that one pixel - water, oxygen, maybe the first real evidence life exists somewhere else. Launch target: sometime in the 2040s. They're still choosing the mirror size. FULL: x.com/ExploreCosmos_… x.com/ExploreCosmos_…

Erika  @ExploreCosmos_

16 hours ago

NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory: the telescope designed to search for another Earth. NASA is already developing the technologies for what could become one of the most ambitious astronomical observatories ever built. The Habitable Worlds Observatory, or HWO, is being

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The future has arrived 🦾 Cybercab now has Starlink built into the roofline- official, not a prototype rig anymore. Why it matters: no steering wheel, no pedals, no human fallback. If the car loses cellular in a dead zone, Starlink is what keeps it talking to home base. Also apparently doubles as a 4K theater on wheels, according to Musk. Even Florida's governor was showing it off at a press conference this week.

Tesla Robotaxi @robotaxi

a day ago

First Cybercab with @Starlink integration

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Update on this: FSD V14.3.7 just started rolling out in waves, ~1,200 vehicles at a time on AI4 hardware. The "perimeter awareness" in this clip just got sharper. New in this build: Start Self-Driving from Park, Speed Profiles, and a still-unexplained "v14 Lite" tag showing up in the logs. Hardware 3 owners - your version is still coming, separately.

maximum @maximumxspace

a week ago

This clip shows what FSD actually "sees" not one forward camera, but full perimeter awareness at once. 8 cameras, zero blind spots. Human vision is built to focus on one point at a time - that's not a flaw, it's just biology. Meanwhile the system is tracking every vehicle around

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Coretail line, for 30 years he stayed short because of a thesis that was right but way too early. Now he's flipping - long fixed income, short 30yr. because the debt math (7% of GDP on interest by 2043) has finally arrived. Being right too early cost him more than being wrong ever would.

Throwback: in 2018, University of Tokyo students built Lunavity - a backpack drone that amplifies your jump. You jump, the rotors kick in mid-air, and you get 2-3x the height with a slow-motion moon-gravity landing. The pitch: replace wheelchairs, jump across streets, maybe even train for lunar EVAs someday. It never made it past prototype - no commercial release, no updates since. But the clip still resurfaces every few years because it's just that good a concept.

Space and Technology @spaceandtech_

2 days ago

Researchers at the University of Tokyo developed Lunavity, a drone backpack designed to help people jump higher. Its rotors provide upward thrust, allowing users to jump two to three times higher than normal. It also helps them float down slowly, creating a feeling of reduced

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Elon Musk personally gave a tour of the Tesla factory in Fremont, California to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara. During the visit: - They walked through the production lines - Discussed Tesla’s latest developments - Took a ride in a Cybertruck prototype - Later held a public conversation on artificial intelligence (which was broadcast live)

Tesla Manufacturing @gigafactories

2 weeks ago

10 million vehicles produced globally. Congrats to all Tesla teams!

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@charliebcurran 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Yeeeeeessssss!!

Sarah Parker @Sarahparkeee

5 days ago

This is how the U.S. military sees Elon Musk… 🇺🇸 A force of innovation, technology, and ambition pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

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@UsArmyspoof_ Yes: 😆😆😆😆

This spring and summer, a neural network - not a human - planned the night observations on the 4-meter Víctor M. Blanco telescope at Cerro Tololo. It controlled the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera, decided where to point it, and rewrote the schedule mid-night when conditions changed. Two full sessions. Both successful. The model was trained on 13 years of Dark Energy Survey archive data with no hardcoded rules. It independently learned how moonlight and atmospheric conditions ruin images. Right now it plans at roughly human level - a solid baseline, not a revolution. The real goal is to discover observation strategies that astronomers themselves would never invent. This becomes critical once the Vera C. Rubin Observatory starts flooding the community with alerts that need faster response than any human can deliver. source: phys org news video: NOIRLabAstro

Elon Musk on the Mars trip (Joe Rogan Experience #1609): The standard transfer takes about 6 months. You time an elliptical orbit around the Sun so that its tip intersects with Mars. There’s only a roughly 6-month launch window every two years when Earth and Mars are properly aligned. Miss that window and you have to wait. Musk also mentioned a faster option: Potentially around 3 months - by intersecting Mars not at the tip of the ellipse, but on its edge. The downside? The tip of that ellipse would stretch out near Jupiter’s orbit. Miss Mars, and you’re heading a lot farther than planned. x.com/iam_smx/status…

Yep: Reusable rockets already solved low Earth orbit. Falcon 9 proved that. Now the real leverage play is the Moon. Vehicles like Falcon 9, Vulcan, New Shepard, and Electron handle the initial infrastructure. But heavy-lift, fully reusable systems - Starship and New Glenn - are what let you land serious mass on the lunar surface. That's the difference between a flag-and-footprints outpost and something that eventually looks like an actual city.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin

6 days ago

Reusable rockets changed access to space. Now they’ll help us build @NASAMoonBase. As heavy-lift vehicles come online, we’ll be able to deliver the infrastructure needed to grow from a small outpost into something much bigger. This is how we build the next chapter of American

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Awesome video! 🚀 Here are a few stats: People start lining up at 9 PM the night before, just to get a spot on a beach 6 miles from the pad. Gates open at 1 AM. By sunrise, that stretch of South Padre Island is packed shoulder to shoulder — locals, tourists, families with kids who skipped school for this. No ticket. No guaranteed launch — scrubs happen constantly. They show up anyway, sometimes for the third attempt in a row, because when it does go, nothing on a screen comes close. That's the real metric no dashboard tracks: how many people will lose a night of sleep for 7 seconds of fire. p.s. I hope to see this in person someday. It's honestly become one of my dreams. 🌙

Jona C. @elfamosisimoJON

3 years ago

Así se vio el segundo lanzamiento de la Starship desde México. 🇲🇽 🚀 Ni Obama tiene esas vistas. Video por Juan Correa desde la frontera con Estados Unidos en Faro Bagdad en Tamaulipas.

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@trippybrippy lol, this soon 😂