Want to Know: Your Daily Musk Companies Update (Patreon)

9th of December, 2024

"The TSLAQ went Q..." - Elon Musk

■ TESLA $TSLA ($389.79, +0.15%):

- Cybertrucks in the Pacific Northwest. Pic by Scott Buscemi (@scottbuscemi).

- According to Motors UK, the Model 3 was November’s fastest-selling used car in the UK. It averaged only 14.7 days to sell.

- Tesla released a new video showing Optimus walking on uneven ground and loose mulch. The robot performed very well, especially when it slipped, self-balanced, and righted itself. Per Tesla AI's Milan Kovac (milankovac), "These runs are on mulched ground, where I’ve myself slipped before. What’s really crazy here is that for these, Optimus is actually blind! Keeping its balance without video (yet), only other on-board sensors consumed by a neural net running in ~2-3ms on its embedded computer.

Per Elon, "Optimus can now walk on highly variable ground using neural nets to control its electric limbs."

- Tesla will be adding Vision to Optimus so it can better plan ahead. Make its gait look more natural on rough terrain. Become more responsive to velocity/direction commands. Learn how to fall to minimize damage when unavoidable and stand back up.

- Cybertruck in the desert of Qatar. Pic by Tesla's Momo Elmegrahi.

- V4 Superchargers are expected to enter China in 2025.

- In Rome, Tesla has placed a Pop-Up store in the Maximo Shopping Center at the Piazza Gabriella Ferri. They have a Model Y and Model 3 Performance on display. They have a dedicated circuit, where you can test drive the cars.

FLYOVERS (flight links in sources section):

• Giga Texas: Joe Tegtmeyer (@JoeTegtmeyer), 9th of December, '24.

■ SPACEX:

- Super Heavy Booster 14 successfully completed a full duration static fire today!

- Frosty SH Booster 14 Spin Prime Test this past Saturday.

- Early Sunday morning, launch 130 of Falcon 9 Starlink 12-5 took place from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral, Florida. This was the second flight for the first stage booster. It previously launched GOES-U mission. The booster landed on drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean. 23 Starlinks were deployed, including 13 Direct to Cell. Pic by Gavin R. (@tweetsiphotos).

Per SpaceX's Kiko Dontchev (@TurkeyBeaver), "This mission set a new record! The SpaceX recovery team completed the fastest ever landing to landing of any of our drone ships at just over 91 hours! ASOG traveled over 600 nm in that time and only spent three hours at port dropping a booster off. Well done recovery team!"

- Falcon 9 has flown the LEO upmass capacity of the entire Apollo program (12 Saturn Vs and 5 Saturn 1Bs over 6 years) in the last 8 months. Per SpaceX's Jon Edwards (@edwards345), "And we accomplished this in less than 10% of the time and for much less than 1% of the cost. While the Apollo Program remains one of the most incredible achievements in human history, Falcon is undeniably something special in its own right."

- SpaceX held their annual "A Christmas Drone Show" over South Padre Island this past Saturday.

- At Starbase, a new horizontal tank has arrived at the Orbital Tank Farm. Pic by Anthony Gomez (@AnthonyFGomez).

- The highway side of the Starfactory now has all the cladding on the exterior walls. Pic by Carlos, the Starbase Surfer (@cnunezimages).

Countdown to 144 (124- Falcon 9, 2 - Falcon Heavy, and 4 - Starship):

• Launch 131! Thursday, 12th of December, at 11:33 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 11-2 will launch from Space Launch Complex 4 East (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 132! Thursday, 12th of December, at 3:55 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 O3b mPower 7 & 8 will launch from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. This is the seventh and eighth of a constellation of eleven high-throughput communications satellites in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) built by Boeing and operated by SES.

• Launch 133! Friday, 13th of December, at 6:30 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 GPS III SV10 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. GPS-IIIA (Global Positioning System) is the first evolution stage of the third generation of the GPS satellites. It consists of the first ten (known as “tranche”) of GPS III satellites.

■ THE BORING COMPANY:

- More steel work installed around the Cyber-Tunnel as crew get closer to completion. Screenshots from Joe Tegtmeyer's flyover.

■ NEURALINK: N/A...

■ STARLINK:

- Space Vision's latest Starlink Maritime install in Montoir Port, France.

- Starlink is now available in Cape Verde, the island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean.

- Oceania Cruises announced they are installing Starlink across its entire fleet of 8 luxury cruise vessels. Unlimited internet is now included in the cruise fare. According to Frank A. Del Rio, President of Oceania Cruises, "The installation of Starlink WiFi across our entire fleet means it’s never been easier to stay connected with loved ones while embarking on an adventure and exploring our incredible global destinations."

- KVH Industries announced that they have completed the deployment of Starlink/VSAT hybrid systems aboard 58 Vroon international shipping vessels. Per Rob Frenks, Vroon Group ICT Manager. "Our crews’ well-being is of the utmost importance to us. By providing reliable and high-speed Internet access to our colleagues at sea, we ensure they can stay connected with families and friends while performing their duties safely and efficiently."

- Clément Martineau, Co-Founder of IX AFRICA Data Centre, spent the past weekend delivering donations to the children of Maua, Kenya. "They were telling me how happy they were to now have a decent internet connection with Starlink. Faster and 30x cheaper than the 4G..."

- According to Cloudflare, Starlink has more than tripled in 2024. Cloudflare said Starlink has seen rapid growth in areas with pent-up demand for alternative internet services. Traffic in Georgia and Paraguay has increased by 100 and 900 times this year alone. Starlink also tripled traffic in 2023.

- Ofcom, the government-approved regulatory and competition authority for the broadcasting, telecommunications and postal industries of the United Kingdom, will consult on opening the airwaves to Starlink Direct to Cell to provide mobile coverage in remote isolated areas. If agreed, services could be offered to consumers in late 2025.

■ X:

- 𝕏 has updated subscriptions and applications.

• All applications have been reviewed. Check your status.

• Eligibility now requires 5M organic impressions in the last 3 months and 2,000 verified followers.

• Price changes for existing creators are now active via request.

• X will also add a grace period if your Premium subscription lapses.

- X Payments secured its 39th Money Transmitter License for the state of Idaho.

■ xAI:

- xAI's Brent Mayo (@BrentM_SpaceX) announcing that NVIDIA, Dell and Supermicro Computer are coming to the Memphis at the Greater Memphis Chamber luncheon. "In Memphis, we're pioneering development in the heartland of America. We're not just leading from the front; we're accelerating progress at an unprecedented pace while ensuring the stability of the grid utilizing megapack technology." Pic by Kemp Conrad.

- Grok 2 + Aurora is now available in your X app via the model selector. Per Elon, "The xAI image generation system was developed internally in ~6 months."

- The xAI dev Team from Saturday night. Per xAI's Greg Yang (@TheGregYang), "Love when they holiday chillin."

Per xAI's Mohit Reddy (@MohitReddy13), "Late night pair programming, debugging and shipping!! Good vibes at xAI!"

- Elon on Grok (Aurora), "This is our internal image generation system. Still in beta, but it will improve fast. We are deleting the name of the internal image generation system, Aurora. Just think of Grok as doing anything."

■ ELON NEWS:

- Elon President-Elect Donald Trump visited France this weekend. They attended the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris and met with world leaders afterwords.

- Per Karl Nehammer (@karlnehammer), Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria, "Freedom of speech and freedom of opinion are paramount. X makes a valuable contribution to enabling people to express both. Elon, it was a pleasure meeting you and discussing economic policy issues."

■ WAYS to SUPPORT:

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Have a great weekend!

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■ SOURCES:

FLYOVERS:

• Giga Texas: Joe Tegtmeyer... coming soon.

Tesla:

• https://cardealermagazine.co.uk/publish/tesla-model-3-was-novembers-fastest-selling-used-car-as-evs-and-suvs-fly-off-forecourts/310686

Starlink:

• https://karryon.com.au/industry-news/cruise/oceania-cruises-starlink/

• https://www.businessinsider.com/starlink-traffic-tripled-2024-in-another-win-for-elon-musk-2024-12

• https://www.commsbusiness.co.uk/content/news/ofcom-consults-on-direct-to-device-connections-from-internet-satellites

X:

• https://x.com/XCreators/status/1865216339008450914?s=19

Elon Quote: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1866177878108623358

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