S.E. Robinson, Jr.

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

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2024-09-11 20:23:53

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2026-06

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11th of September, 2024

"Strive to greater heights, For a future brighter than the past, Waking up each morning inspired, To learn new secrets of the Universe!" - Elon on Polaris Dawn's apogee of 1,400 km.

■ TESLA $TSLA ($228.20, +0.90%):

- Aspen Real Estate of Pinang, Malaysia, 𝗠𝗶𝗱-𝗔𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗺𝗻 𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 for their customers. There were workshops, a lantern parade, and a lion dance troupe. Tesla and Tesla Owners Pinang showcased Model Ys and 3s with a 33 car Light Show.

- Tesla's own Jim Rugg just got a Powerwall 3. Per Jim, "The Rugg Family are now powered by a Tesla Energy Powerwall 3! The system includes 10 x 455 watt Solar Panels. The free Over-the-Air Software Updates means PW3 is like a fine wine…..only gets better with age! Integrates with ‘Ginger’ (My Tesla Model 3) to enable Charge on Solar. 10 year comprehensive warranty. In summary, I have never been more blown away by the engineering brilliance of one product... The Powerwall 3 truly is a game changer!"

- James May likes the Cybertruck. Takes it for a drive, and appeals to Elon for Tesla to make something the size of a Model Y, or smaller, but styled like a Cybertruck. "I'd go for that."

- Posted this yesterday, but just in case you missed it, the official 10/10 Robotaxi Reveal sign up is active and it will take place in Los Angeles! You must be a verified shareholder and sign up via the Tesla stockholder page for a chance to win an invite. Each share you own is basically a raffle ticket, so the more you own the better your chances. If selected, you will receive an email with updates regarding the next steps. Link is in the sources section.

- Tesla's Bayan Abdellatif has posted that Giga New York has officially kicked off their Family & Friends Tours program. The above pic is their first group of tourists; Tesla's Richard Metz and Kritin Ram with their families. "Nicholas McGrain did a wonderful job leading the tour and expanding everyone’s knowledge on our plant and production processes. Excited to see this initiative come to life and looking forward to many more successful tours ahead!"

- For of their department's Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program, Irvine, California's Police Department just dropped $150,000 for a Foundation Series Cybertruck. Included in that purchase, the department will get unspecified law enforcement equipment and be outfitted by Unplugged Performance's UP FIT Police Package.

- Omar (@WholeMarsBlog) posted that "There appears to be large untapped demand for an international version of the Cybertruck." In which Elon replied simply, "Yeah..."

- Tesla China is now selling an official Model Y Rear Canopy for ¥699 ($99). It covers 4.5 square meter. It is made of waterproof silver-coated fabric and light aluminum alloy. Lots of hype for this once I posted it. Pretty sure it will come to other countries... but how soon. Just in case, I will try and get 3 of them; 1 for me and 2 as giveaways.

FLYOVERS:

Giga Texas: Joe Tegtmeyer (@JoeTegtmeyer), 11th of September, '24. Lot's of Cybertrucks at the End of Line parking lot. The 3 flagpoles are on site.

Giga Nevada Semi Factory: Zanegler (@HinrichsZane), 10th of September, '24. We get to see BZI's construction whole process up close and handle some wind. Great progress!
Giga Texas: Brad Sloan, 10th of September, '24.

■ SPACEX:

- Amazing video of the Polaris Dawn Dragon Resilience reaching an apogee of 1,400.7 km. City lights on Earth pass behind as the forward bulkhead Draco thrusters are firing during the burn. Gorgeous!

- The Polaris Dawn Day 1: Shortly after liftoff, the crew began a two-day pre-breathe protocol in preparation for their anticipated spacewalk on Thursday. Dragon Resilience lowered pressure and increased oxygen levels inside the cabin to purge nitrogen from the crew’s bloodstreams to help lower the risk of decompression sickness (DCS) during the spacewalk operations. The crew did a 3.5 hour Starlink test.

Dragon made its first pass through the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA), a region where Earth’s magnetic field is weaker, allowing more high-energy particles from space to penetrate closer to Earth. Mission control monitored and responded to Resilience's systems across all high-apogee phases of flight, particularly through the SAA region.

The crew went to sleep and Resilience began to burn towards 1,400 km apogee. It settled in, orbiting Earth higher than any humans in over 50 years! Per Mission Commander Jared Isaacman (@rookisaacman), "We all look forward to our friends at the Artemis Program to take us to even greater heights!"

As Day 2 starts, Dragon and crew have completed six orbits of Earth at ~1,400 km. After five hours, Dragon performed four burns to lower itself to an orbit of ~190 x 737 km in preparation for Thursday’s spacewalk!

- Now that the storm has passed, crews are back at it at Starbase. Test Tank 14.1 is feeling it on during the can crusher test. Pic by Sean Doherty (@SeanKD_Photos) for WAI. Chopstick work started back up today. Pic by @StarshipGazer.

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

Launch 92! Wednesday, 11th of September, at 7:47 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:

- The Boring crews are grading the interior entrance of the Cyber-Tunnel and the west side exterior has been painted their signature white. Pics by Joe Tegtmeyer.

■ NEURALINK: N/A...

■ STARLINK:

- On the 5th of September, T-Mobile successfully conducted the first-ever wireless emergency alert via Starlink. The alert was sent 217 miles to a Starlink Direct to Cell satellite where it was broadcasted to a designated geographic area and received by a T-Mobile LTE smartphone.

Per Ben Longmier (@longmier), Sr Director, Satellite Engineering at Spacex, "Emergency alerts have been demonstrated from our direct to cell satellites in orbit and will work to all T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon phones in the US during events like forest fires, tornadoes, hurricanes, and Amber alerts. Starlink will be able to fill in all gaps in coverage from our vantage point in LEO. When cell phone towers fail, we will be transmitting from space directly to users’ mobile phones for maximum safety."

- Chinedu Abanobi, Managing Director at Fieldbase, has launched the Train 20 Project with the goal of building a skilled workforce of 20 certified Starlink installers across Nigeria. "We’ve successfully trained engineers in Lagos, Port Harcourt, Abuja, and Zaria, with some participants traveling from nearby cities like Warri, Maiduguri, and Kano. The results are already evident: improved installation quality and greater brand ambassadorship for Fieldbase. Next stop: Accra, Ghana!"

- Today, Federal Communications Commission chair Jessica Rosenworcel said she wants to see more competition for SpaceX's Starlink. Per Jessica, "Starlink has almost two-thirds of the satellites that are in space right now and has a very high portion of internet traffic... Our economy doesn't benefit from monopolies. So we've got to invite many more space actors in, many more companies that can develop constellations and innovations in space."

- Starlink is now offering a Residential Lite plan in New Zealand, Italy, Spain, Colombia, and several regions across South America, Africa, and the Pacific islands. The new plan offers unlimited internet access with slower data speeds, ranging from 50 to 100 Mbps. Some areas are as low as $30/mth. H/T Willard Shoko (@WillarShoko).

- Today Starlink increased their Roam to $165/mth, up from $150, and now supports "in-motion" use and can be used internationally. This new plan is now called "Roam Unlimited." In-motion is for use on vehicles traveling up to 100 miles per hour. And the international update can be used in supported foreign countries for up to two months. Lastly, users can run Starlink up to 12 nautical miles off the coast and for a period of up to 2 months.

- Geosensor Wireline using Starlink to transmit data at a recently completed a Borehole Gravity Survey in Australia. Maximum depth was 1840m, the deepest Scintrex Limited GRAVILOG tool survey anywhere in the world and most certainly in Australia.

■ X:

- X's Cris Nulli (@crisnulli) and Federico Paderni (@federico) in Italy meeting with Anna Zizola (@Annazizola), EU Public Policy expert, and partners. Per Cris, "X has proved once again to be a solid platform to bring value across different layers."

- X is working on a separate block feature for DMs. You'll be able to block someone from messaging you without blocking them from your account. Per Elon, "DMs are being decoupled from public posting, so that if all you want to do is use this platform for messaging, but not post publicly, you can do so."

- X had over 3.5 billion impressions about last night's Trump and Harris debate.

■ xAI:

- Latest image I could find of the xAI facility in Memphis. FLyover Pilot position is still open!!! ... If it's allowed. Check first 😉

■ ELON NEWS:

- Taylor Swift... 🤦‍♂️

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SOURCES:

FLYOVERS:

Giga Texas: Joe Tegtmeyer... coming soon.
Giga Nevada Semi Factory: Zanegler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wip4om5FUYI
Giga Texas: Brad Sloan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPXhlKaiX2U

Tesla:

Starlink: