Want to Know: The Daily Musk Company Update (Patreon)

10th of September, 2024

"It really should not be possible to build a giant rocket faster than paper can move from one desk to another..." - Elon, at the All In Summit

■ TESLA $TSLA ($226.17, 4.58%):

- Tesla Lithium Refinery's Klarissa Garcia and team were at the Robstown ISD college fair yesterday. "It was a pleasure to be part of such an important event and to support the amazing students of this wonderful community. We truly value opportunities like these!"

- Tesla Energy's setup at the the RE+ Event in Anaheim, California. They are located in Hall D, Booth 22041 and in the outside the Arena at section SV7 near Kenworth. Go check them out.

- According to Reuters, after taking into account submissions by Tesla and other companies, the European Union will lower proposed final tariffs and slightly trim rates for Tesla and other EVs from China.

- Ceiba Renewables is one of the first Tesla Energy certified installer in Scotland. This recently installed their first two Powerwall 3s.

- Per Elon on Dojo, "We should have Dojo 2 in volume production by the end of next year. That will be comparable to a NVIDIA B200 type system. I have some improved confidence in Dojo, but we won’t really know how good it is until version 3. Usually it takes three major iterations on a technology for it to be excellent and we’ll only have the second major iteration next year. The third iteration maybe late 2026."

- Cybertruck at Starbase by Carlos, the Starbase Surfer, (@cnunezimages).

- Tesla China insured 16,200 units last week.

- The Uber app now uses Tesla API to send destinations to your Tesla navigation system. This enhancement simplifies the process for Uber drivers using Tesla vehicles, especially those utilizing FSD, by eliminating the need to manually enter addresses. H/T Omar (@WholeMarsBlog.)

- Good Faith Energy installing Tesla Solar Roof for a client located on Jumby Bay Island, right off the coast of Antigua and Barbuda. Phase 2 is to install ~350 kWh of Powerwalls to complete the project. Pics by Good Faith Energy Founder, Mohammed Abdalla.

- According to Tesla's Wes Morrill (@wmorrill3), Cybertruck battery armor and rock sliders will be available as a retrofit option at the end of this year.

■ SPACEX:

- Early this morning launch 91 of Falcon 9 Polaris Dawn took off from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. This will be the first mission of the privately funded Polaris program. This will be the first human spaceflight for Mission Pilot Kidd Poteet, Mission Specialist Sarah Gillis (Lead Space Operations Engineer at SpaceX), and Mission Specialist and Medical Officer Anna Menon (Lead Space Operations Engineer at SpaceX). Mission Commander Jared Isaacman previously flew to space as commander of Inspiration-4. The booster landed on drone ship Just Read the Instructions in the Atlantic Ocean.

This mission is to last up to five days in orbit, fly higher than any previous Dragon missions, perform the first-ever commercial EVA with SpaceX-designed spacesuits, orbit through portions of the Van Allen radiation belt, conduct medical research, and test laser-based Starlink communications. The EVA attempt will be on Thursday, the 12th of September at 2:23 a.m. ET.

SpaceX's Kiko Dontchev (@TurkeyBeaver) posted this pic of Elon and just a few of the SpaceX team members who made the mission possible.

View of Earth and Dragon’s Skywalker shortly after the Polaris Dawn crew launched into orbit. As of this post Dragon and the crew will remain at an altitude of approximately 190 x 1,216 km for eight orbits before the spacecraft raises itself to an altitude of 1,400 km later today. Once on-orbit, the crew has already started to conduct the initial rounds of research and test Starlink.

For this mission SpaceX dropped a lot of new merchin the SpaceX Store. The Limited Edition Sunglass are sold out.

- The FAA has sent a launch license date estimate of late November for IFT-5. This is more than a two-month delay from the previously communicated date of mid-September. SpaceX is not happy, stating, "the licensing process has been repeatedly derailed by issues ranging from the frivolous to the patently absurd. At times, these roadblocks have been driven by false and misleading reporting, built on bad-faith hysterics from online detractors or special interest groups who have presented poorly constructed science as fact."

- At approximately 10 p.m. ET, quarantine will start for the SpaceX NASA Crew-9 team.

Countdown to 144 (88 - Falcon 9, 1 - Falcon Heavy, and 2 - Starship):

• Launch 92! Wednesday, 11th of September, at 6:09 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 9-6 will launch from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. The booster will land on drone ship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean.

• Launch 93! Thursday, 12th of September, at 4:52 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 BlueBird Block 1 will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral, Florida. This is the first 5 commercial satellites in SpaceMobile's cellphone-compatible broadband constellation. In orbit, they will provide connectivity for smartphones outside cellular coverage in partnership with mobile network operators (MNOs). The booster will land at Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

• Launch 94! Sunday, 15th of September, at 6:57 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 Galileo L13 (FOC FM26 & FM32) will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral, Florida. This is two satellites for Europe’s Galileo navigation system. Galileo provides Europe with an alternative to the American GPS and Russian GLONASS constellations, but will be interoperable with both systems. The booster will be expended in the Atlantic Ocean.

■ THE BORING COMPANY: N/A... boring.

■ NEURALINK: N/A...

■ STARLINK:

- The Starlink router installed inside Dragon’s cabin.

■ X:

- The X treasure hunter, Lohan Simpson (@Lohansimpson), just found something interesting. X is on web TV cast.

■ xAI: N/A...

■ ELON NEWS:

- Elon spoke at the All In Summit last night and it was great. He was very at ease, cutting up and joking with his friends. It was very insightful. I highly recommend you watch. Video in the sources section.

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SOURCES:

Tesla:

• https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/eu-lower-proposed-tariffs-tesla-other-evs-china-bloomberg-news-reports-2024-09-10/

SpaceX:

• Polaris Dawn Launch https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1jMJgBDXAmWGL

Elon News:

• All in Summit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSFvOUswFwA

3:01 PM · Sep 10, 2024

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