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Starship’s path to reusability looks murky after SpaceX’s S-1 techcrunch.com/2026/05/26/st…

Views of Starship in space from a @Starlink satellite

Watch Starship's twelfth flight test x.com/i/broadcasts/1pKkOykQR…

Fram2’s Mission Commander @satofishi is set to fly aboard Starship’s first interplanetary human spaceflight mission → spacex.com/updates#first-sta…

Watch Starship's twelfth flight test x.com/i/broadcasts/1YxNrZwwo…

Three years since the first flight of Starship, the next generation is here. New ship. New booster. New engines. New pad and new test site. SpaceX engineers are working to solve one of the most difficult engineering challenges in history: developing a fully, rapidly reusable rocket

NEWS: NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced today a $20 billion plan to build a permanent U.S. base on the Moon over the next 7 years. NASA is cancelling plans to deploy a space station in lunar orbit. “NASA is committed to achieving the near‑impossible once again, to return to the Moon before the end of President Trump’s term, build a Moon base, establish an enduring presence, and do the other things needed to ensure American leadership in space. The clock is running in this great‑power competition, and success or failure will be measured in months, not years. If we concentrate NASA’s extraordinary resources on the objectives of the National Space Policy, clear away needless obstacles that impede progress, and unleash the workforce and industrial might of our nation and partners, then returning to the Moon and building a base will seem pale in comparison to what we will be capable of accomplishing in the years ahead.” The plan: Phase One: Build, Test, Learn NASA shifts from bespoke, infrequent missions to a repeatable, modular approach. Through CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) deliveries and the LTV (Lunar Terrain Vehicle) program, the agency will increase the tempo of lunar activity, sending rovers, instruments, and technology demonstrations that advance mobility, power generation (including radioisotope heater units and radioisotope thermoelectric generators), communications, navigation, surface operations, and a wide range of scientific investigations. Phase Two: Establish Early Infrastructure With lessons from early missions in hand, NASA moves toward semi‑habitable infrastructure and regular logistics. This phase supports recurring astronaut operations on the surface and incorporates major international contributions, including JAXA’s (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) pressurized rover, and potentially other partner scientific payloads, rovers, and infrastructure/transportation capabilities. Phase Three: Enable Long‑Duration Human Presence As cargo‑capable human landing systems (HLS) come online, NASA will deliver heavier infrastructure needed for a continuous human foothold on the Moon, marking the transition from periodic expeditions to a permanent lunar base. This will include ASI’s (Italian Space Agency) Multi-purpose Habitats (MPH), CSA’s (Canadian Space Agency) Lunar Utility Vehicle, and opportun.

Formal announcement of the TERAFAB project, which will be done jointly by @SpaceX and @Tesla, tonight around 8pm CT. Livestream on 𝕏. The goal is to produce over a TERAWATT of compute per year (logic, memory & packaging) with ~80% for space and ~20% for the ground.

Amazon claims it would take “centuries” to deploy this 1M constellation. For context, we’ve spent months diving into physics backed estimates for what these sats will probably look like. All that work culminated in this article: research.33fg.com/analysis/t… Elon has indicated publicly that this and previous analysis we’ve done on this topic is at least directionally accurate. I’m sure it will not be exact, but better than most other publicly available resources. Our numbers suggest that early versions (3-5 years) of these satellites would produce 50kw-100kw/ton with room to improve into the 150-200kw/ton range Assuming starship V3 gets 100T to LEO (and never improves), the 100GWs is the goal not just a hard 1M satellites, the power density never improves (it will), Then the launches required for this goal is between 10,000-20,000 based on our power density estimates (conservative) The only way Amazon is even close to correct with its “centuries” claim is if launch regulations never allow more than 100 launches of starship per year, and all the metrics above don’t improve. Starship is already approved for ~120 launches out of Florida. This does not count Starbase or any other locations for future Starship launches. More launch sites, better mass to orbit, and better power density dramatically reduce these launch numbers. An improvement in all 3 (highly likely) over the next decade drives this timeline down to <10 years. The centuries claim is misleading and likely purposefully using old historical numbers to help with their petition. Interestingly it’s one of the only claims without a citation.

President Trump gave the world the Artemis Program, and NASA and our partners have the plan to deliver. We will standardize architecture where possible, add missions and accelerate flight rate, execute in an evolutionary way, and safely return American astronauts to the Moon, this time to stay. This is the NASA that once changed the world. This is the NASA that will do it again.

To be clear, we are still going to do Mars. I don’t think this change affects the time to a Mars city being self-growing by more than 5 years and it might turn out to accelerate Mars.

For those unaware, SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20 years. The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to the stars. It is only possible to travel to Mars when the planets align every 26 months (six month trip time), whereas we can launch to the Moon every 10 days (2 day trip time). This means we can iterate much faster to complete a Moon city than a Mars city. That said, SpaceX will also strive to build a Mars city and begin doing so in about 5 to 7 years, but the overriding priority is securing the future of civilization and the Moon is faster.

SpaceX and xAI is possibly the greatest merger in human history.

SpaceX has acquired xAI, forming one of the most ambitious, vertically integrated innovation engines on (and off) Earth → spacex.com/updates#xai-joins…

SpaceX is seriously going for 100GW of "AI Inference" from 1M satellite constellation in SSO, presumably at 100kW per satellite. No weekend for the space data center crowd...

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