Jeff Foust

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Senior writer, @SpaceNews_Inc. Tips? DMs open, email jfoust@spacenews.com, or on Signal: jfoust.58. Also @jfoust.bsky.social.

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1	Oct 13, '25	When a random guy interrupts your live shot.	61.3×	981k	4.8k	218	137
2	Oct 10, '24	Updated with some comments from another committee meeting today by SpaceX's Bill Gerstenmaier, who said the previous Super Heavy landed in the ocean "with half a centimeter accurac	29.9×	478k	2.5k	250	138
3	Jun 26, '24	SpaceX has won a $843 million NASA contract to build the US Deorbit Vehicle for the ISS. That vehicle will handle the final deorbit of the station around 2030 (or so).	29.7×	476k	1.3k	148	62
4	Jan 17, '25	I wonder if the airlines that had to reroute planes to avoid the debris feel entertained.	27.4×	439k	2.7k	109	169
5	Feb 8, '23	SpaceX's Gwynne Shotwell says SpaceX will attempt a 33-engine Super Heavy static fire test tomorrow.	26.5×	425k	1.9k	268	16
6	Feb 21, '23	Gary Henry, senior advisor for national security space solutions at SpaceX, says at a Space Mobility panel that both the Starship booster and pad are in "good shape" after static f	16.7×	267k	1.1k	104	9
7	Feb 14, '23	Gwynne Shotwell told reporters last week that SpaceX sold the rigs; "they were not the right platform." Still interested in sea-based launch platforms, but the company wants to sta	16.5×	264k	1.1k	131	21
8	Jun 6, '24	"We've got s'more Starship test flights coming up soon."	16.5×	263k	2.3k	117	43
9	Jul 2, '25	Uhhhh…	16.2×	259k	2.7k	92	165
10	Jan 17, '25	From the FAA: "The FAA is requiring SpaceX to perform a mishap investigation into the loss of the Starship vehicle during launch operations on Jan. 16. There are no reports of publ	15.2×	243k	1.8k	138	106
11	Apr 30, '23	NY Post: "A New Shepherd ship, from the Blue Origin fleet, plunged into the sea after a fiery and aborted launch." Ah yes, the dusty seas of West Texas…	12.3×	196k	1k	31	16
12	Oct 1, '25	A rocket going down an escalator is perhaps not the best messaging for an orbital launch vehicle. #iac2025	12.3×	196k	1.7k	44	48
13	Jan 27, '23	"Maybe next week we'll have a 33-engine static fire" of the Super Heavy booster, SpaceX's Bill Gerstenmaier says at AIAA SciTech this morning.	11.8×	189k	866	84	6
14	Nov 16, '20	The Crew-1 “0-g indicator” is a Baby Yoda.	11×	0	7.5k	712	77
15	Nov 5, '25	He adds the first V3 Starship launch could take place as soon as January; a booster will be rolling out to the pad for tests in "days to weeks".	10.3×	165k	918	73	50
16	Mar 18, '24	The FAA's Kelvin Coleman says at the #payloadspacecapitol event this evening that he didn't see any major issues with last week's Starship launch, but SpaceX still needs to carry o	10×	160k	1.1k	111	49
17	Apr 27, '23	Nelson says SpaceX has told NASA that it can repair the pad and prepare the next Starship in about 2 months. Last week’s failure is “not a big downer”.	8.8×	141k	782	93	19
18	Aug 5, '20	Fact check: - NASA was neither closed nor dead at the start of the current administration. - Many recent NASA successes have their origins in prior administrations. - The Starship	8.5×	0	4.6k	1.2k	40
19	May 14, '19	Subcommittee chairman Cruz: pirates threaten the open seas, and the same is possible in space, hence need for a Space Force.	8.4×	0	4.3k	424	21
20	Apr 25, '24	Some SpaceX charts showing how the company believes it can use Starship to establish a lunar base (from its DARPA LunaA-10 study, being discussed today at the LSIC meeting.)	7.8×	125k	945	119	111
21	Nov 25, '24	NASA has selected SpaceX's Falcon Heavy to launch the Dragonfly mission to Titan in July 2028. Contract value is $256.6 million.	7.2×	116k	777	74	25
22	Sep 4, '23	Worth noting SpaceX is no longer using YouTube for launch broadcasts. Unfortunate.	7.1×	113k	806	37	8
23	Oct 6, '24	From the FAA: "The SpaceX Falcon 9 vehicle is authorized to return to flight only for the planned Hera mission scheduled to launch on Oct. 7 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station	6.9×	110k	1.2k	87	45
24	Oct 1, '24	The CEO of SpaceX has commented more on text formatting than on the third grounding of his company's Falcon 9 rocket in three months. I guess you could call that a bold choice.	6.6×	106k	742	40	33
25	Aug 23, '23	A lot of speeches and celebration after the landing. Hopefully they can take a break from that soon and provide some post-landing images and data from Chandrayaan-3.	5.8×	93k	2k	116	18
26	Mar 18, '25	A reminder that the plan to return Williams and Wilmore on Crew-9 was announced by NASA in August 2024, before Trump returned to the White House.	5.4×	86k	2k	210	42
27	Oct 30, '25	Near the very end of this update: "In response to the latest calls, we’ve shared and are formally assessing a simplified mission architecture and concept of operations that we beli	5.1×	82k	961	56	61
28	Mar 7, '22	I didn’t have a Twitter spat between a former NASA astronaut and the current head of Roscosmos on my bingo card for 2022, and yet here we are.	5.1×	0	3.4k	321	76
29	Jan 20, '21	The U.S. Space Force flag joins those of the other services at the inaugural.	4.7×	0	2.4k	386	60
30	Mar 27, '24	"We need an image to go with our story about the final Delta IV Heavy launch." "Sure, no problem. All rockets look alike, right?"	4.5×	72k	930	43	16
31	Jan 29, '25	NASA's Mark Wiese says at a SpaceCom panel that there have been significant changes to the SpaceX Dragon XL design for Gateway logistics. Defers to SpaceX to disclose details on th	4.5×	72k	819	54	47
32	Jun 5, '24	Steve Stich cuts Tory Bruno’s tie after the post-launch press conference to mark ULA’s entry into the “human spaceflight club.”	4.3×	68k	1.1k	114	24
33	Apr 11, '25	Isaacman Wednesday: "more telescopes, more probes, more rovers" OMB Thursday: fewer telescopes, fewer probes, fewer rovers	4.1×	66k	927	136	41
34	Nov 16, '22	Quite the show.	3.9×	0	2.8k	304	22
35	Mar 19, '24	Gwynne Shotwell calls Starship's launch last week "incredibly successful" during a panel discussion at Satellite 2024. Flight 4 "in about six weeks," she says; won't carry Starlink	3.9×	62k	881	70	25
36	Aug 27, '24	No wonder Butch and Suni are stranded. The shuttle retired 13 years ago.	3.9×	62k	729	24	7
37	Feb 24, '21	NASA’s Kathy Lueders said at a Spaceport Summit panel that the LOX prevalve issue that delayed the SLS core stage Green Run test is because engineers “had a hard time getting it to	3.7×	0	3k	90	8
38	Feb 10, '25	Good to see some struggling startups like Blue Origin and SpaceX get some much-needed cash.	3.7×	59k	921	42	35
39	Oct 11, '22	NASA Administrator Bill Nelson says DART successfully changed the orbit of Dimorphos, decreasing its orbital period around Didymos from 11hrs 55 mins to 11hrs 23mins, a 32-minute c	3.7×	0	2.1k	372	37
40	Jan 29, '25	NASA's Kent Chojnacki says on the same panel that for the HLS uncrewed demo mission, SpaceX will have to demonstrate landing, surviving on the surface for a couple hours, and then	3.6×	58k	784	73	53
41	Oct 16, '24	The Axiom AxEMU lunar spacesuit, developed in partnership with Prada, on display at an #IAC2024 briefing.	3.4×	54k	795	85	38
42	May 2, '25	The amount of spin here is remarkable.	3.3×	53k	754	49	25
43	Nov 16, '20	A reminder that NASA was not “closed up” when President Trump took office, and that the commercial crew program that enabled this launch started in the Obama administration, buildi	3.2×	0	2k	362	18
44	Sep 27, '24	At this afternoon's Crew-9 briefing, NASA releases photos of the reconfigured Crew-8 interior with the two extra seats to accommodate Wilmore and Williams in the event of an emerge	3.2×	52k	971	87	65
45	Aug 23, '23	First official post-landing image from Chandrayaan-3.	3.2×	51k	771	70	5
46	Sep 16, '24	Ironies at #WSBW: coffee was served in disposable cups with the SpaceX logo; later, drinks were served in plastic, reusable ULA cups.	3.2×	51k	1.2k	51	44
47	Mar 14, '24	So far, this launch looks like a tremendous step forward for Starship, but a major setback in hold music.	3.1×	49k	1.2k	64	14
48	Oct 11, '24	The big FAA license news today is… they have cleared Falcon 9 to return to flight. “The FAA notified SpaceX on Oct. 11 that the Falcon 9 vehicle is authorized to return to regular	3.1×	49k	929	58	26
49	Jan 4, '22	Layer 5 is now fully tensioned. Deployment of JWST’s sunshield is complete.	3.0×	0	2.1k	190	3
50	Jun 3, '22	NASA is paying SpaceX $2.9 billion for that trip to the Moon…	3.0×	0	1.9k	176	25
51	Apr 26, '21	Musk’s response to the Blue Origin GAO protest is… in character.	2.9×	0	2.3k	92	8
52	Apr 10, '21	Appreciated the sentiment of this bumper sticker. (And it did: I saw it driving home from a COVID vaccination.)	2.8×	0	2k	139	25
53	Jul 30, '25	The agreement between NASA and ISRO to develop NISAR was signed in 2014, before President Trump's first term.	2.8×	44k	952	96	33
54	Mar 9, '22	Broomstick gathers some more soot.	2.6×	0	2.1k	80	2
55	May 13, '20	Headline of the day: “Elon Musk will need more than 10,000 missiles to nuke Mars — Roscosmos”	2.6×	0	1.8k	108	28
56	Jul 26, '21	In a letter to NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, Jeff Bezos offers to cover billions of dollars of costs if NASA will give Blue Origin a second Human Landing System contract:	2.5×	0	1.3k	174	36
57	Jul 11, '22	In honor of the years of delays in the development of JWST, the White House event where the first full-color image will be released has been delayed from 5pm to 5:30pm EDT.	2.4×	0	1.5k	174	10
58	Sep 8, '21	JWST has an official launch date: December 18, 2021. Happy Holidays!	2.3×	0	1.5k	180	6
59	Oct 13, '21	Retired executive takes new job as rideshare driver.	2.2×	0	1.6k	94	9
60	Jul 7, '21	Useful chart from NASA’s Launch Services Program presented at today’s planetary sciences decadal survey steering committee meeting, comparing performance of launch vehicles at seve	2.1×	0	1.5k	112	30
61	Oct 3, '25	It took to the last day of #IAC2025 but they got the rocket pointy end up.	2.1×	33k	1.1k	21	26
62	Jan 16, '21	Far less than a full duration burn. Still looked spectacular.	2.0×	0	1.4k	129	12
63	Feb 9, '22	I get a lot of spammy DMs, but this one is… intriguing.	2.0×	0	1.4k	71	14
64	Oct 17, '24	The AxEMU spacesuit now has a display worthy of Prada at #IAC2024.	2.0×	32k	705	60	32
65	Dec 13, '22	🤔	2.0×	0	1.5k	63	24
66	Nov 5, '25	SpaceX's Kiko Dontchev says at the Economist Space Summit this morning that the company's goal for 2025 is 165–170 Falcon 9 launches (currently at 140).	2.0×	32k	774	46	27
67	Apr 26, '21	Blue Origin has filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office over NASA’s selection of SpaceX in the Human Landing System competition. “NASA has executed a flawed acqui	1.9×	0	1.1k	92	16
68	Apr 15, '21	SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell said yesterday she believes Starship will be flying “large numbers of people” in five years. “I recognize,” she added, “we never make our timelines, so the	1.9×	0	1.3k	128	8
69	Sep 6, '19	PM Modi watching intently…	1.8×	0	1.2k	102	9
70	Mar 3, '22	The brooms are working.	1.7×	0	1.3k	79	1
71	Mar 1, '21	Something to look forward to.	1.7×	0	1.1k	127	8
72	Nov 17, '20	Hatches are open and the four astronauts of Crew-1 (plus one Baby Yoda) are now on the ISS.	1.6×	0	1.1k	98	4
73	Mar 7, '22	A couple notes from a talk SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell gave at Caltech that just wrapped up: • SpaceX had been working for a month and a half with the Ukrainian gov’t	1.6×	0	1.1k	89	27
74	Nov 25, '21	Exhale, everybody.	1.6×	0	1.2k	73	2
75	May 9, '21	Who wants to tell them the rocket reentered nearly 24 hours ago?	1.5×	0	1.2k	53	4
76	Apr 24, '21	Full house inside the ISS now that hatches to the Dragon are open.	1.5×	0	1k	102	3
77	Apr 24, '21	The Crew Dragon’s view of the ISS as it approaches for docking this morning.	1.4×	0	983	103	3
78	Mar 3, '21	oh dear,Moon [from the webcast]	1.3×	0	916	58	7
79	Feb 10, '21	At the Outer Planets Assessment Group meeting, Bob Pappalardo said the Europa Clipper project received formal direction Jan. 25 to cease efforts to support compatibility with SLS;	1.3×	0	761	101	7
80	Feb 9, '21	Congrats to the UAE for already landing someone on Mars. Too bad they couldn’t afford a spacesuit, though.	1.3×	0	894	71	3
81	Jul 17, '22	Completion of SpaceX’s 31st launch so far this year, the same number the company conducted in all of 2021.	1.3×	0	845	92	6
82	Jul 11, '21	The view from the spaceport shortly after ignition. #Unity22	1.2×	0	804	108	5
83	Jul 19, '17	A summary of Elon Musk’s luncheon talk, leading with plans to end development of Dragon propulsive landings. #ISSRDC	1.2×	0	688	152	0
84	Jan 5, '22	“Alexa, open the pod bay doors.”	1.2×	0	720	75	10
85	Apr 19, '21	Out: laptop stickers In: laptop masks	1.1×	0	874	49	2
86	May 26, '21	Four years ago, Elon Musk compared payload fairing recovery to “$6 million in cash in a pallet flying through the air.” SpaceX has caught a lot of $6 million cash pallets since the	1.1×	0	854	54	3
87	Apr 17, '21	NASA says it will attempt a first flight of the Mars helicopter Ingenuity as soon as Monday:	1.1×	0	797	86	2
88	May 9, '21	NASA Administrator Bill Nelson: “It is clear that China is failing to meet responsible standards regarding their space debris… It is critical that China and all spacefaring nations	1.1×	0	694	82	7
89	Oct 31, '20	Maybe you should have stopped at the lunar scientist.	1.1×	0	770	58	4
90	Apr 30, '21	NASA is announcing at a briefing that Ingenuity is moving from a tech demo phase to an “ops demo” phase to show an aerial platform can support a rover like Perseverance.	1.1×	0	715	78	5
91	Apr 26, '21	One interesting point skimming through the protest: Blue Origin says its bid was $5.99 billion, a little more than twice as much as SpaceX’s winning bid. (NASA’s source selection s	1.0×	0	742	48	5
92	Dec 8, '21	Yusaku Maezawa enters the ISS.	1.0×	0	773	56	3
93	Mar 14, '21	Nine up, nine down for this Falcon 9 booster.	1.0×	0	779	49	2
94	Apr 13, '21	Astrobotic has selected SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy to launch its Griffin Mission 1 lunar lander, carrying NASA’s VIPER lunar rover, in late 2023.	1.0×	0	713	76	3
95	May 15, '19	I fully expect to see a pirate flag on an upcoming SpaceX mission.	1.0×	0	696	69	1
96	Aug 24, '21	In a LEO constellation panel at #SpaceSymposium, SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell confirms that SpaceX paused Starlink launches until it can get laser intersatellite links in place on all	1.0×	0	697	68	4
97	Aug 23, '21	Lunar Outpost, a company that last year won a $1 award for collecting lunar resources for NASA, got its first, 10% milestone payment at a #SpaceSymposium briefing. Yes, a check for	1.0×	0	692	53	8
98	Jun 5, '22	I’m not quite sure what happened here.	1.0×	0	724	22	4
99	Mar 18, '22	Ran into one of those Space Coast traffic jams leaving KSC today. What launch is this hardware for, ⁦@torybruno⁩?	0.9×	0	758	22	2
100	Mar 3, '21	At SpaceX, tomorrow is today.	0.9×	0	704	30	2

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