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Want to Know: Your Daily Musk Companies Update (Patreon)
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13th of November, 2024
"Tunnels will be important on Mars..." - Elon
■ TESLA $TSLA ($330.24, +0.53%):
- Foundation Series Cybertrucks are now available for order via Tesla's new online inventory in the U.S. The AWD ($99,990) and Cyberbeast ($119,990) are available.
- Cybertruck is in Ankara, Turkey now until tomorrow, 14th of November. H/T Esther Rebers (@EstherRebers).
- Get can now get your replacement Cybertruck wiper blade for $75. Cheaper than I thought it would be. H/T @greggertruck.
- You can now purchase items at the Tesla Shop and use interest-free payment plans via Klarna. 4 payments over 6 weeks for 0% APR. Good catch by Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt).
- Tesla is at the Science and Technology City International High-tech Expo in Mianyang City of southwest China's Sichuan Province. Cybertruck, Optimus, Model Y, and more are on display. Go to the Mianyang International Convention, Exhibition Center Hall A, International Cooperation Zone, Tesla booth.
- Photos of Tesla China's Tom Zhu (@tomzhu_nz) and Grace Tao Lin's store tours in Xi'an, Xinjiang, Chengdu, Wuxi and other places across China. The tour was from July to August this year. H/T faultbugs (@faultbugs).
FLYOVERS (flights in sources section):
Giga Texas: Joe Tegtmeyer (@JoeTegtmeyer), 13th of November, '24. The old temporary electrical switchyard area continues to be leveled. V4 Supercharger installs at the End of Line. Boring things are progressing! Follow and subscribe to Joe!
Giga Texas: Brad Sloan, 12th of November, '24.
■ SPACEX:
- As of posting this Article, the Mega Bay 1 door is open and Super Heavy Booster 13 will soon roll to the launch pad!
- The Automated Drawworks Systems (ADS) 30Q for Tower B, The Heart Of Mechazilla, has been placed into position!
- Starship Flight 6 road closures are now in place for Hwy 4. Closure date is the 18th with backup dates of the 19th and 20th. Each day is from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. CT. The Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) and Notice to Mariners (NTM) for Flight 6's re-entry for the 18th have also been issued.
- Raptor 3 testing at the McGregor test facility having a rough start on the Raptor Horizontal stand. RUD.
- Last night, all 3 of Starship 34's outer transfer tubes were lifted inside Mega Bay 2 via the installation jig. Probably already installed.
- The 7th and 8th O3b mPOWER satellites have been delivered to Cape Canaveral, Florida. They will launch aboard Falcon 9 in three weeks.
FLYOVERS (flights in sources section):
Starbase: RGV Aerial Photography (@RGVaerialphotos), 13th of November, '24. Latest views of Pad B's flame trench and Starbase production areas.
Countdown to 144 (108 - Falcon 9, 2 - Falcon Heavy, and 3 - Starship):
Launch 114! Wednesday, 13th of November, at 8:21 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 Starlink 9-11 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 115! Thursday, 14th of November, at 5:33 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 Starlink 6-68 will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The booster will land on drone ship Just Read the Instructions in the Atlantic Ocean.
Launch 116! Sunday, 17th of November, 4:29 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 Optus-X will launch from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Optus X is a Northrop Grumman-built geostationary communications satellite for Australian satellite operator Optus. The booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
Launch 117! Tuesday, 19th of November, at 1:30 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 GSAT-20 will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. GSAT-20 is an Indian geostationary Ka-band high-throughput communications satellite. It will be the first fully Electric Propulsion/EP enabled satellite which can be five to six times more efficient than chemical-based propulsion. It will be the first ISRO made satellite to move from Geostationary transfer orbit to Geosynchronous orbit using Electric Propulsion.
Launch 118! Monday, 18th of November, at 4:00 p.m. CT, Starship 31 Super Heavy Booster 13 Integrated Flight Test 6 will launch from Orbital Launch Mount A (OLM-A) at SpaceX Starbase, Texas. SH Booster 13 will return to Starbase and be caught by the Tower A.
Launch 119! Thursday, 21st of November, at 10:53 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 Starlink 6-66 will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The booster will land on drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean.
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■ THE BORING COMPANY:
- Per Elon, "Tunnels will be important on Mars." Per The Boring Company, "Prufrock fits nicely in the Starship payload bay."
- Great progress pics from Joe (@JoeTegtmeyer) today of the Cyber-Tunnel! Check out the interior view of the tunnel entrance. The alternate roadway entrance for the Model Y's is looking good. As you can also see, the tunnel exit on the westside of the highway is getting ready for its road to be paved! Again, follow and subscribe to Joe!
■ NEURALINK: N/A...
■ STARLINK:
- Starlink has released the Standard Backpack for $199. The Standard Backpack is designed to fit all the components needed to use a Starlink Standard Kit on-the-go. It can fit the Gen 3 router, power supply, provided 5m Standard Starlink Cable, and up to a 16" laptop.
- Alex Fleming, Chief Marketing Officer at Sherpa Equipment, is currently down in Baja exploring and getting ready to spectate the Baja 1000 with Starlink. "Testing out a new Starlink Mount design using the Starlink Mini, this thing is awesome. Power consumption on 12v is very minimal and speeds are great."
- Clarus Networks Group has announced they offer a fully certified Starlink service for trains. In partnership with ScotRail and supported by the Scottish Futures Trust, Clarus will soon deploy Starlink on Scotland’s Far North Line, equipping Class 158 trains to address long-standing connectivity challenges in the Scottish Highlands. Clarus has certified Starlink to rail standards EN50155, EN50121, and EN45545.
- Emad Rashidi (@EmadRashidi) using Starlink Mini in Mongolia. "Exploring in remote Mongolia with my Mini staying connected anywhere, in any weather conditions. The durability has been incredible."
- Obuoy Well Solutions (OWS), oilfield specialist out of Kuala Lumpur, have successfully completed their first Starlink pilot installation and deployment. With Starlink they are now able to provide high-speed internet access to areas offshore and inland remote areas. "This pilot is just the beginning as we work towards transforming how remote operations and communications are handled."
- Olivier de Weck, Professor of Astronautics and Engineering Systems at MIT, and his team conducted their final environmental water quality monitoring mission with the autonomous PEARL platform on the Charles River in Cambridge. The PEARL uses real-time Starlink connectivity, MoosIvP, and solar energy.
■ X:
- MSM organization The Guardian announced it will no longer post content on X because it considered the benefits of being on the platform are now outweighed by the negatives. "We wanted to let readers know that we will no longer post on any official Guardian editorial accounts on the social media site X." The Guardian has more than 80 accounts on X with approximately 27 million followers. This is how legacy media fades away.
Per Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX), "X usage is at an all-time high and continues to surge. To all of our users of every interest, political party, and point of view, you will always have a place to engage and join the global conversation freely and safely. Legacy gatekeepers are yesterday’s news."
■ xAI:
- Grok has, or will soon have, the ability to do web search.
- Per xAI's Hieu Pham(@hyhieu226), "The wall LLMs are hitting is an exploitation / exploration border. We have exploited ever larger models and textual datasets. It's time to explore something else. The caveat is that, this "something else" is much more similar to what we are exploiting than most people think."
■ ELON NEWS:
- President-Elect Donald Trump announced that Elon and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead the Department of Government Efficiency (D.O.G.E.). The Department will last 18 months; beginning the 20th of January, 2025, to the 4th of July, 2026. It will conclude on the 250th anniversary of America's adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
- You can follow the official Department of Government Efficiency @DOGE!
- Elon was in attendance as President-elect Donald Trump met with House Republicans on Capitol Hill in Washington, today.
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■ SOURCES:
FLYOVERS:
Giga Texas: Joe Tegtmeyer
Starbase: RGV Aerial Photography https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfo4k5lmBQw
Giga Texas: Brad Sloan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrKKs2njMBs
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