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SpaceX StarLink joins the SeattleIX Internet Exchange Point, meaning connected to the Internet at 10Gbps. This will be one of many local ground...

Jeff Foust @jeff_foust Morhard says SpaceX Demo-1 uncrewed test flight still scheduled for March 2. Starliner uncrewed test flight some time in the...

SpaceX ✔ @SpaceX Static fire test of Falcon 9 complete targeting February 21 launch of Nusantara Satu from Pad 40 in Florida. 8:03 PM - Feb 18,...

Off-hour (overnight) rates in the US can be lower. Our utility charges $0.069/kWh for the first 17 kWh and $0.082/kWh after that. If you sign up...

These differences may seem stark but I wonder whether it may in part be caused by differences in funding out of the general budget. It may be that in...

Some interesting statistics on prices in EU: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Electricity_price_statistics

It's not that easy to say how much I pay for electricity. There is a fixed charge of about EUR 8/month for distribution. I also receive about...

In Belgium, prices shot up. Not so much the price per kWh, but rather the distribution cost (which makes it even worse if you have solar panels, as...

Speaking of electricity: how much do you guys pay? I live alone in 2.5 room apartment, electric boiler, hob, washing machine, dishwasher, NAS. I...

In the Netherlands we have had quite a few fiscal subsidy measures to favor low to zero emission vehicles. Each measure turned out bad. We had one on...

Yes, the first batch was unloaded in Zeebrugge, Musk even came to Belgium for that. Still, I tend to agree with UtwigMU: the heat will be turned...

Europe just received the first shipment of Model 3's with right hand drive and about 3,000/week will be heading there. I suspect the Model Y...

I think heat will be turned up for tesla. I see eGolfs, BMW i3s, Renault Zoes Smarts, Nissan Leaves, occasional Tesla S but I haven't seen a Tesla 3....

https://www.recruit.net/job/supervisor_brownsville-tx_jobs/23A52544507D7B8C

Confirmed: the Super Heavy booster and Starship will be built in Brownsville, TX https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/1120859043/

@elonmusk SpaceX foundry casting Raptor engine manifold out of Inconel https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1096722006450462721

They don't think it's components can survive the brittleness they will reach at night in the winter with no heaters running. OTOH, they didn't think...

Nice xkcd cartoon as a farewell: https://xkcd.com/2111 But this one for Spirit also fits nice: https://xkcd.com/695/ And it will miss this...

RIP. A great piece of "short life" engineering. It did a great service.. Maybe one day another storm may blow away the dust and it will come to...

Everyday Astronaut @Erdayastronaut Replying to @elonmusk and 4 others Will there still be these header tanks inside starship? | Elon Musk ✔...

SpaceX has spun off SpaceX Services Inc. to run the StarLink system. DoD and SpaceX testing the two test satellites for military aircraft comms....

Randomness as a human @epoxy101 Replying to @elonmusk and 3 others will it be cheaper than F9 for kg to LEO for instance? | Elon Musk ✔ @elonmusk...

Another Raptor TweetStorm... Elon Musk ✔ @elonmusk Raptor reached 268.9 bar today, exceeding prior record held by the awesome Russian RD-180....

The CLPS timeline puts commercial human lander unmanned tests in the 2024-2025 time frame. SpaceX may well beat this with a Starship test. ...

Nice!