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Kiko Dontchev
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Kiko Dontchev
@TurkeyBeaver
VP of Launch @ SpaceX and father of Finn and Otie
Cocoa Beach, FL
Joined January 2018
- Today marks 15 years @SpaceX. I spent last week at HQ in Starbase and couldn’t help but get sentimental. Much has changed since my first day in the office, but a few key things are identical. The mission, the energy, the buzz in the building, and the awe of walking around a
- There are launches and then there are LAUNCHES!!! Hard to describe the blood, sweat and tears that got the @PolarisProgram crew to orbit today. Pictured below are just a few of the @SpaceX team members who made the mission happen with @elonmusk, shortly after launch All focus
- Launch #110 of 2025Falcon 9 and some clouds transit the sun during this morning’s Starlink launch ☁️🚀☀️
- With today’s launch, @SpaceX has hit 170 launches on a rolling 365 day clock 🚀😍 This is made possible by a hardcore focus on safety and reliability!
- Falcon launch #130 for 2025. The rolling 365 launch total is 166 launches! Notable records from this morning: * Fastest launch to launch from the same American Launch Pad at 55 Hrs, 29 minutes and 9 seconds * Fastest TE roll in to hangar for booster integration to launch at 12
00:00 - Falcon 9 is vertical on the pad and the droneship is in position in the Exuma sound. Tracking no issues or constraints at this time to launch of Starlink 10-12 this evening… This launch is special as it will be the first time a rocket launches from one country and lands inReplying to @SpaceX and @StarlinkUp next: watch Falcon 9 land on the Just Read the Instructions droneship off the coast of The Bahamas for the first time → spacex.com/launches/missi…
- Proper way to end the first half of 2025 Both the east and west coast teams set records on these two missions: 🚀 New single pad launch to launch record: 56hr 31min 10sec. Additionally in a nod to rapid reuse, this was three launches in less than 5 days from the same pad: 118Falcon 9 launches back-to-back @Starlink missions from Florida and California, completing our 80th & 81st Falcon missions of the year
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- The cosmos is within us - Carl Sagan Congrats to @SpaceX and @VisitTheBahamas for an epic Falcon launch, space jelly, and landing!
- Gorgeous sunrise on the Crew-10 vehicle this morning. We are super excited for this mission and exercising extreme paranoia across systems to ensure the safety of the crew and vehicle. Nothing gets the heart pumping like human spaceflight 🚀!!!
- 10 years ago today, @SpaceX performed the first integrated test with Dragon 2, the pad abort test. It was a huge step in our human spaceflight program as it proved an integrated launch escape system was feasible and set the stage for development of the flight version of Dragon 2.
- The @SpaceX is unreal. Facing only a 15% chance of good weather this morning and an incoming major hurricane, we still went for (with a plan to roll the rocket back in the hangar for safety if we didn’t launch). Good launch, good orbit, and good payload deploy. Sayonara HERA andView from Falcon 9's second stage during the Hera mission
- With Hurricane Helene out of the way, Crew-9 is back outside at pad 40. Shown below are two of the critical teams that support launch at the Cape. Both the Safety and Pad teams work 24/7, 365 to keep the machine running and our team safe. A huge thank you to the men and women of
