SpaceX's V3 Super Heavy cut its grid fins from four to three, each 50% larger. Now @elonmusk says it "might" get down to two, using S-turns for the third axis of control. Here's how that could work.
15 years ago, @elonmusk envisioned fully reusable rockets as the key to making humanity multiplanetary. Today, Falcon 9 boosters have landed hundreds of times, and Super Heavy has been caught by its launch tower.
Next up: fully reusable Starship. 🚀
Elon Musk:
"We do have, I think, some significant potential breakthroughs in chip fabrication, but I don't think I should discuss that on an earnings call. Let's not give away the shop here."
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"The guy goes into a cheese shop to get some cheese, and they actually have no cheese."
— Elon Musk on the demand for compute
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"Even old computers like H100s renting for more than they rented when they were new. And I think that's likely to continue."
— Elon Musk
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"I do think there's a lot of merit to combining companies.. So I think it would be a good idea."
— Elon Musk on SpaceX + Tesla 🤝
(No deal agreed yet.)
"We can bring power online 12 to 18 months faster than anyone else. That's the kind of advantage that's difficult to replicate."
— Elon Musk
"Somewhere between $500 billion and a trillion.. I don't want to give Brett a heart attack."
— Elon Musk 👽
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"Somewhere between $500 billion and a trillion.. I don't want to give Brett a heart attack."
— Elon Musk 👽
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𝕐𝕠𝕦𝕤𝕖𝕗 retweeted
Here’s full Elon Musk’s remarks at SpaceX Q3 2026 results:
0:00 - Inflection moment for SpaceX
0:50 - Starship Flight 14 to orbit
1:40 - Flight 15 catch both stages
2:50 - Louisiana spaceport announced
4:00 - Weekly then twice weekly flights
5:20 - Complete reusability like airplane
6:30 - Starlink 26 Tbps = 10 Falcon 9
7:50 - 100x bandwidth, 100k satellites
9:10 - 1000x demand from AI agents
10:20 - SI constraint: power & cooling
11:30 - Memphis 200k GB300s monthly
12:40 - Aiming 20 GW next year
13:20 - 440k Vera Rubin cluster Q2
14:00 - GrokBot fastest growth ever
14:35 - $500 B-$1T ARR by end 2027
"The only way that we can extend consciousness beyond Earth on a sustained basis is with a fully reusable orbital launch vehicle."
— Elon Musk
I can't imagine what Grok Bot will be like next year 🔥👽
Elon Musk: "We're seeing the fastest growth of a product that I've ever seen in my life for Grok Bot"
"I've never seen anything grow this fast"
Usage per user grows over time instead of declining. As Grok Bot gets more useful, people use it more each week
Next up is enterprise. Grok Bot is already in early deployment with trusted customers, and wide enterprise deployment is expected within a few weeks, so companies can use it in teams "as though it were a virtual human"
"I think Grok Bot may end up being what uses most of our super intelligence compute"





