Elon's SpaceX Falcon Heavy:
Falcon Heavy side booster separation.
Viasat-3 F3 mission.
April 29, 2026.
#SpaceX #FalconHeavy #ElonMusk
"Reading this while a 400mbps+ download going in the background with my Starlink is funny as hell."
Elon's SpaceX Falcon Heavy:
Falcon Heavy liftoff for the Viasat-3 F3 mission. Note that the reusable side boosters have flown in multiple other missions. In this launch, the center core is being expended.
FH payload mass to LEO with expended center core, and reusable side boosters is 57 metric tons.
FH payload mass to LEO with all three cores reusable is 30 metric tons.
FH payload mass to LEO with all three cores expended is 63.8 metric tons.
April 29, 2026.
#SpaceX #FalconHeavy #ElonMusk
“heh of course not lol”
From now on, when any mediocre temporarily embarrased “academic” tries to say this or that is impossible in spaceflight, on fedi or Big Social… I will simply ask them who the world’s leading orbital launch provider is.
It smoked out @FourOh-LLC ‘s ignorance of the current state-of-the-art on 2026 spaceflight.
He said that “Russia is the leading orbital launch provider,” instead of SpaceX (SpaceX is 90% of the world’s annual orbital upmass).
:goodfellaslaugh :
I just got a reply from one of these political pundits on Big Social, saying that Elon Musk's space plans are "unrealistic."
Asked him who the leading orbital launch provider was.
He couldn't answer! 😆😆😆
"Man the Starlink doubters are hilarious in retrospect."
Political Pundits:
"12,000 Starlinks is impossible."
Reality:
As of April 2026: 11,500 Starlinks launched, 10,000 fully operational satellites. More coming with Falcon 9 launching every 2.3 days average.
Political pundits losing the bet against Elon Musk's space travel advances, over and over again 😆.
https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/9tgrzp/why_starlink_is_impossible/
"I have the starlink mini. Thing is amazing."
The usual online political pundits on both the left and right have been losing the bet against Elon Musk's spaceflight advances for almost two decades now.
Falcon Heavy side boosters RTLS and land, after launching Viasat-3 F3.