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Jon Edwards

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Jon Edwards

@edwards345

SVP of Falcon and Dragon at SpaceX, long-time SpaceX’er (since April 2004), BS/MS Purdue AAE, musician & bass player for Dr. Spaceman, happy husband & dad

Redondo Beach, CA

Joined April 2009

Jon Edwards
@edwards345
Apr 9, 2025
True.
MUSKOSOPHY
@muskosophy
Apr 9, 2025
“I have worked closely with Elon for over 20 years. His heart is pure, and his sole mission is to help humanity. During the darkest moments, he has shown me the path to choose courage and compassion over fear and hate.” – Antonio Gracias, member of DOGE
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Jon Edwards
@edwards345
Jun 13, 2025
A lot of blood, sweat, tears, and sacrifice were required to make it to this milestone. I have nothing but gratitude and immense love/respect for everyone who contributed along the way. 🙏
SpaceX
@SpaceX
Jun 13, 2025
Falcon completes its 500th overall mission! Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team for making the impossible possible on the road to rapidly reusable rockets!
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Jon Edwards
@edwards345
Mar 2, 2025
This is one of the coolest videos I’ve ever seen. Please enjoy it while it is still novel. Soon this will become as common and routine as a Falcon booster landing.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Mar 2, 2025
This is a real video of a past @SpaceX Starship water landing. Trying again tomorrow. We need to perfect ship reentry at extreme temperatures before attempting to catch the ship with the tower arms, like the booster.
Dima Zeniuk
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Dima Zeniuk
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Jon Edwards
@edwards345
Mar 29, 2025
Interestingly, the closest astronauts have ever come to flying in a true polar orbit (90 deg inclination) were the original Soviet Vostok and Voskhod cosmonauts (including Yuri Gagarin) in the early 1960s - and they only flew to around 65 deg. The space shuttle did a single
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Mar 29, 2025
First time humans will be in polar orbit around Earth launches on Monday! @framonauts
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Jon Edwards
@edwards345
Dec 28, 2024
Community Notes is such a common sense yet revolutionary solution for maximizing truth in the news. Can still be improved obviously but light years better than what any other platform offers.
ELON CLIPS
@ElonClipsX
Dec 28, 2024
Elon Musk: It's very important to have a competition for truth. “We're putting a lot of effort into Community Notes. That is, I think, quite a good way to assess the truth of things. It's the community itself, basically the people of Earth, who are competing to provide the
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Jon Edwards
@edwards345
Sep 5, 2024
Starlink is a positive force in the world, bridging the digital divide across the globe. Starlink will boost education, healthcare, and economic opportunities for communities that have limited or no internet access. Everyone at SpaceX is working crazy hard to achieve this.
Gwynne Shotwell
@Gwynne_Shotwell
Sep 5, 2024
This was one of my favorite days at work, bringing @Starlink’s high-speed internet to a school in the Amazon and meeting (and getting hugs from) these extraordinary students. This picture shows just a few of the hundreds of thousands of amazing Brazilian people whom we are
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Jon Edwards
@edwards345
May 16, 2025
SpaceX has assembled the most talented team of space vehicle innovators, builders, and operators the world has ever seen. I may be biased, but I truly believe this. And we are just getting started. Our future in space has never been brighter! If you have a passion for space,
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
May 16, 2025
Great work by the @SpaceX team!
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Jon Edwards
@edwards345
Oct 14, 2024
And new Falcon speed record: 12680 m/s (earth-centered inertial)
SpaceX
@SpaceX
Oct 14, 2024
Deployment of @NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft confirmed
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Jon Edwards
@edwards345
Sep 10, 2024
Important, please read!
SpaceX
@SpaceX
Sep 10, 2024
Starship's fully and rapidly reusable design will exponentially increase humanity’s ability to access and utilize outer space. To unlock its full potential, and do it rapidly enough to meet commitments to national priorities like NASA’s Artemis program, Starships need to fly →
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Jon Edwards
@edwards345
Sep 10, 2025
My guess is that someday we'll determine that life is relatively common in the universe, but intelligent life is extremely rare.
NASA Mars
@NASAMars
Sep 10, 2025
After a year of scientific scrutiny, a rock sample collected by the Perseverance rover has been confirmed to contain a potential biosignature. The sample is the best candidate so far to provide evidence of ancient microbial life on Mars. go.nasa.gov/4n35lVM
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Jon Edwards
@edwards345
Sep 27, 2025
Dragon and its new “boost trunk” performed a 15 minute burn yesterday, providing 1.62 m/s of delta-v to the ISS for station-keeping (a job typically performed by Roscosmos via the Zvezda Service Module or visiting Progress vehicles). Great photo by American (and Crew-11)
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Jon Edwards
@edwards345
Jun 10, 2025
Last week, SpaceX successfully completed a controlled deorbit of the SiriusXM-10 upper stage after GTO payload deployment. While we routinely do controlled deorbits for LEO stages (e.g., Starlink), deorbiting from GTO is extremely difficult due to the high energy needed to alter
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Jon Edwards
@edwards345
Mar 16, 2025
99 years ago today, physics professor Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, soaring an underwhelming 41 feet before crashing into a cabbage field. Even though he was mocked in his time, he pushed on, pioneering the propulsion technology we use today. Without his
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Jon Edwards
@edwards345
Mar 4, 2025
People - especially the media - often claim that Elon isn’t deeply involved in his companies and doesn’t deserve credit for their success. This couldn’t be further from the truth. While he obviously can’t personally solve every issue, he relentlessly focuses on the biggest, most
Omead Afshar
@omead
Mar 4, 2025
I remember this day very well! These pictures are from a Sunday in March of 2018. We were living in the factory at this time, truly 24/7. I feel strongly if we didn’t get the push from Elon to clear everything out that weekend, 36 hours was the expectation, we would not have
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