From Tuscany, Italy. SpaceX Starship - Ship Propulsion engineer, raised on Booster. Made of stars.
Starbase, TX
Joined January 2010
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We made it. It’s hard to describe how much work, intensity, sweat (literal when walking down the ship ox tank or frustum), and passion went into S39 from my ship stage RE team and entire ship and booster teams and everyone else. It’s always this the amazes me on a successful launch like this, and this most of all: how I have the honor to witness and live alongside fellow humans and friends driven by their infinite desire, each one expressing it in the way that was given, either be a thermal fluids analyst, or a supply chain engineer, or a cook or a gnc engineer or a build engineer or a technician. Starships, and men, are meant to fly.
Chiara Bernardini retweeted
Ship 42 returns to Starbase, Texas for the first-ever Starship tower catch during Flight 15! I have dreamt of creating this image for years... and today it became real.
Congrats, SpaceX team!
Each one of us bust our butts to make each ship perfect and fly perfect. And S42 was.
She could fly again right now. I’m grateful for each one of you. Keep your hearts up. We caught it. We did it.
Chiara Bernardini retweeted
Constant communication is what makes autonomy like this safe. Early contact lets us take maneuvering responsibility, publish ephemeris faster than ground radar can catalog the object, and deorbit and keep commanding through demise if needed
We treat early communications as a requirement, not a nice-to-have
I have been on @Starlink for about 2 years now in Brownsville and never had an outage (big pain before with an unnamed provider).. strongly recommend this great opportunity for Cameron county residents!
Starbase, Texas is home to @SpaceX's headquarters, and the Rio Grande Valley is where thousands of our team members and their families live.
As SpaceX continues to build an exciting future for humanity, we are offering our neighbors in the Cameron County area a 50% discount on Starlink Residential service plans → starlink.com/cameroncounty
Stunning views … those bow shocks!!!!
Tracking footage of the first orbital Starship launch, Flight 14 from liftoff to landing captured in high definition super-slow motion.
📹: @NASASpaceflight
Chiara Bernardini retweeted
Today was the day! I’ve been living full time in South Texas for almost 6 years on what I originally thought was going to be an 18 month rotation working towards what we got today, a Starship that delivers payload to orbit. I’ve worked on a reasonable number of rocket programs and there is something special about getting to orbit (and breaking free of the tyranny of Earth’s gravity).
I don’t feel like there’s any one team to recognize for this because many people worked for months and years to get to an operational Starship today. We have lots more excitement on the way with ship and booster catch to get right, but this feels like a big step and I’m excited that it went so well today.
It’s icing on the cake that this is 18 years to the day of making orbit on Falcon 1. I’ve been thinking back to that day this evening. It’s a different feeling than that because we had the whole company riding on one launch back then, but Starship feels like the beginning of a new chapter in what it can unlock that brings a similar amount of hope and excitement for the future.
Ad Astra! Thank you to all the SpaceXers and happy Orbit Day!
Chiara Bernardini retweeted
"The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce ... The fundamental dignity of each person, therefore, is neither acquired nor earned, nor does it need to be justified ... The dignity of every human person can be described as infinite."
Pope Leo XIV: "Magnifica Humanitas."
Chiara Bernardini retweeted
Big drone cleaning the Starbase launch control room windows for clear views of Starship flight 14 on launch day.
9/26/26
The bakery is really amazing engineering… high rate paradise.
Chiara Bernardini retweeted
Finally a heatshield episode!
Those are my home boys talking ❤️
A fully and rapidly reusable rocket will fundamentally change how humanity accesses outer space. “The Holy Grail of Rocketry” continues the ongoing Starship series with a look back at the scrappy days of SpaceX engineers proving reuse was possible and takes you onboard a high-seas race to recover a floating Starship
Chiara Bernardini retweeted
A fully and rapidly reusable rocket will fundamentally change how humanity accesses outer space. “The Holy Grail of Rocketry” continues the ongoing Starship series with a look back at the scrappy days of SpaceX engineers proving reuse was possible and takes you onboard a high-seas race to recover a floating Starship
Chiara Bernardini retweeted
Introducing Starbase, Louisiana – a high-cadence launch site that will enable Starship to open a pathway to the stars for humanity.
Thank you to @LAGovJeffLandry and the great people of Louisiana for all of their support as we work together on this audacious project → spacex.com/sites/starbase-la