--- title: Elon Musk Debuts New SpaceX Rocket on Twitter description: The billionaire CEO of SpaceX, Elon Musk, decided to show off his new rockets Twitter Saturday. canonical: https://time.com/3602095/know-right-now-elon-musk-debuts-new-rocket-on-twitter/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-24T16:21:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T02:19:11.850Z article:section: Science og:title: Elon Musk debuts new rocket on Twitter og:description: The billionaire CEO of SpaceX, Elon Musk, decided to show off his new rockets Twitter Saturday. og:url: https://time.com/3602095/know-right-now-elon-musk-debuts-new-rocket-on-twitter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7ee466a99d44a51f/69876a8a35ba6f562cc0583d/gif2.gif?branch=production&width=828&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Know Right Now: Elon Musk shows off rockets on Twitter og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Elon Musk debuts new rocket on Twitter twitter:description: The billionaire CEO of SpaceX, Elon Musk, decided to show off his new rockets Twitter Saturday. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7ee466a99d44a51f/69876a8a35ba6f562cc0583d/gif2.gif?branch=production&width=828&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Know Right Now: Elon Musk Debuts New Rocket on Twitter by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Nov 24, 2014 4:21 PM UTC  Know Right Now: Elon Musk shows off rockets on Twitter Know Right Now: Elon Musk shows off rockets on Twitter by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Nov 24, 2014 4:21 PM UTC The billionaire CEO of SpaceX, Elon Musk, decided to show off his new rockets Saturday. He revealed SpaceX’s newly improved rocket, the Falcon 9R, which now has four adjustable wings. The 9R’s “X Wings” are designed to deploy after takeoff and will work with rocket thrusters for navigation, which Musk showed in a video he shared on Twitter. Musk also revealed that SpaceX is creating rocket landing pads at sea, which will be used as refueling stations for rockets before launching back into space. Elon Musk Debuts New SpaceX Rocket on Twitter ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3602095/know-right-now-elon-musk-debuts-new-rocket-on-twitter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3602095/know-right-now-elon-musk-debuts-new-rocket-on-twitter/"},"headline":"Know Right Now: Elon Musk Debuts New Rocket on Twitter","datePublished":"2014-11-24T16:21:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T02:19:11.850Z","description":"He revealed the improved Falcon 9R","url":"https://time.com/3602095/know-right-now-elon-musk-debuts-new-rocket-on-twitter/","keywords":["Know Right Now","Space","Elon Musk","Billionaire","SpaceX","rocket"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7ee466a99d44a51f/69876a8a35ba6f562cc0583d/gif2.gif?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7ee466a99d44a51f/69876a8a35ba6f562cc0583d/gif2.gif?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Know Right Now: Elon Musk shows off rockets on Twitter","caption":"Know Right Now: Elon Musk shows off rockets on Twitter","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/know-right-now/","name":"Know Right Now"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3602095/know-right-now-elon-musk-debuts-new-rocket-on-twitter/","name":"Know Right Now: Elon Musk Debuts New Rocket on Twitter"}}]}] ```