Ben Longmier @longmier
Sr Director, Satellite Engineering @Spacex spacex.com Bay Area Joined March 2015-
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we're working on making X DMs competitive with WhatsApp / Signal / Telegram, watch this space
Earth Day 2002, about 2am. My first apartment in college. I lived above 2 noisy bars with a window facing the street. A tipsy college kid climbs a 10ft tall Maple tree with a trunk barely 1.5” in diameter. The guy ends up breaking the trunk and proceeds to lead an impromptu…
SF is a beautiful city.
It’s really wild to walk the assembly line of our direct to cell sats, and then see them orbiting Earth a couple weeks later. Next up: RF performance tests and then internal user testing with phones in the field.
It’s really wild to walk the assembly line of our direct to cell sats, and then see them orbiting Earth a couple weeks later. Next up: RF performance tests and then internal user testing with phones in the field.
Deploying 6 more of our SpaceX sats to communicate directly to unmodified mobile phones on the ground!!
Deploying 6 more of our SpaceX sats to communicate directly to unmodified mobile phones on the ground!! https://t.co/cyjnoPGcAi
@Starlink is now providing service in Argentina!
Whats a few eV between friends. “Coolest” reentry plasma video to date, much more to come!
The Starlink team has been focused on improving network performance with the goal of < 20ms latency. Over the past month, we have meaningfully reduced median and worst-case latency for users around the world → api.starlink.com/public-files/S…
The SpaceX team just completed the first post on X from a phone to one of our Direct to Cell satellites! This was the tree cover in a small valley in the Santa Cruz Mountains earlier in the day when we were exchanging some DMs on X.
The SpaceX team just completed the first post on X from a phone to one of our Direct to Cell satellites! This was the tree cover in a small valley in the Santa Cruz Mountains earlier in the day when we were exchanging some DMs on X. https://t.co/pzveDbSn8P
Go Falcon! Go Dragon! Godspeed Ax-3!!!
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It feels very surreal that the team is now walking around the SpaceX campus texting each other from our off the shelf, and unmodified, test phones sending normal 4G LTE data packets up to our first 6 satellites and back down to the other test phones.
It feels very surreal that the team is now walking around the SpaceX campus texting each other from our off the shelf, and unmodified, test phones sending normal 4G LTE data packets up to our first 6 satellites and back down to the other test phones.
The SpaceX Direct to Cell team has really been sprinting. So nice to be a part of this group and working hand in hand with our US partner, T-Mobile.
The SpaceX Direct to Cell team has really been sprinting. So nice to be a part of this group and working hand in hand with our US partner, T-Mobile.
Thank you to our early telco partners for joining a new satellite phone global roaming program, direct to your existing cell phone.
Thank you to our early telco partners for joining a new satellite phone global roaming program, direct to your existing cell phone.
And we are in space! My Direct to Cell team is hiring in Redmond and Sunnyvale if you want to help work on the future of satellite communications to cell phones. SOFTWARE ENGINEER, WIRELESS PROTOCOL (STARLINK & DIRECT-TO-CELL) boards.greenhouse.io/spacex/jobs/70… -
And we are in space! My Direct to Cell team is hiring in Redmond and Sunnyvale if you want to help work on the future of satellite communications to cell phones. SOFTWARE ENGINEER, WIRELESS PROTOCOL (STARLINK & DIRECT-TO-CELL) boards.greenhouse.io/spacex/jobs/70… -
Step inside the thought process for designing a new experimental plasma propulsion technology with the new PEPL Pitch-Day video. The only question left: how well will it work? Watch the video here: youtu.be/h7l2BhorKMw
So nice to see things really heating up in the Electric Propulsion community! aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/year-in-review…
SpaceX has completed 70 Falcon launches so far this year, 20 of which have been supported by our team at Vandenberg If you’re interested in being a part of the mission to make space more accessible and ultimately life multiplanetary, learn more about what’s possible →…
100 Gbps space laser mesh!
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1.8M Followers 617 Following Professional rocket orientation specialist, explainer of flamey stuff and rocket chaser. Bringing space down to Earth for everyday people 🚀 #dearMoonCrew
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🚨 EXCITING NEWS ALERT! 🚨 Vogtle 4, the newest Westinghouse AP1000 reactor in the USA, is now officially in commercial operation! Plant Vogtle has now claimed its spot as the largest nuclear power plant in the country. Having visited for PRA work not long ago, it's…
Here’s what it’s like to use Starlink on a commercial flight. Rich saw speeds of up to 250 Mbps. “Theres no need to download movies anymore. You can watch whatever you want on demand: It’s incredibly game changing.” Great reporting my KTLA5: msn.com/en-us/travel/n…
The latest in a series of battery discharge records occurred on @California_ISO grid last night. Battery discharge hit an all time high - 6.5 GW - at 8:40 PM. Note that gas usage at this time was under 2GW. A separate record was set as discharge reached 28% of load. 🧵
Our 12th launch of April. The second month in a row with 12. Amazing work by the Falcon Production, Engineering, Test and Launch Teams. #43
Falcon 9 takes flight from Florida, delivering 23 @Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit
Ever wonder how we make X available globally to hundreds of millions of users? The Traffic and Edge compute team is hiring! x.com/i/jobs/1763399…
Atomic power can easily guarantee energy independence into the indefinite future while being clean, reliable, and safe More than that, it can do so with the absolute minimum in material and land out of any energy production method. It would power us to the stars if we let it.
We have a moral obligation to understand the physics of our energy economy because it is the basis of all wealth, prosperity, and abundance in your life, and the lives of all future generations.
SF mayor needs new security. Any high school wrestler could have done better.
this is killing me, why are they adhering to Olympic Judo rules?
Most of history had and still most of the world has “might makes right” as the axiomatic error. If any thought is given to it, you should obviously consider morality in the absolute! Deeds done determine good or bad, not whether one party is stronger or weaker than the other.
The Starlink Kit arrives with everything you need to get online in minutes Refurbished kits are now available for $399
Congrats @SpaceX team on 300 rocket landings!
Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the Just Read the Instructions droneship, completing Falcon’s 300th landing!
Model 3 is quicker than a Porsche 911
New Model 3 Performance launching today 🏎️ → tesla.com/model3-perform… 0-60 mph in 2.9 510 hp / 741 Nm 163 mph top speed — Performance-tuned chassis Same quiet & comfortable cabin plus bespoke chassis hardware for improved stiffness and higher performance baseline. More power,…
Always amazed at overnight shipping operations. Drop off at 5pm for delivery to most locations in North America by 9am.
They should just make you do a 5 minute hands-on tutorial once every 5 years or something and then spare us the demo on every flight
if i had to go back to college i’d move to canada and go to waterloo
I buy my car based on how safe my family will be in it, not the politics of the CEO.
We should send rockets not at each other, but rather to the stars
New upper stage disposal rules will help, not harm, U.S. leadership in space spacenews.com/new-upper-stag…
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