S.E. Robinson, Jr.

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2024-12-11 21:31:44

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2026-06

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11th of December, 2024

"As foretold in the prophecy..." - Elon Musk

■ TESLA $TSLA ($424.77, +5.93%):

- Tesla's Patricia Paun and team getting ready for tomorrow's Christmas event from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Book a test drive and win Tesla gift! Kovinska 2, Zagreb, Croatia. "We are waiting for you, see you!"

- Tesla's Mezcal will be restocked in the U.S. tomorrow! $450 a bottle. I will be giving away a bottle with a set of Copitas to a random subscriber at the end December for the Holidays. Subscribe and don't miss out.

- Optimus contemplating his life choices... Pic by Milan Kovac (milankovac), Optimus Engineering for Tesla AI.

- Cybercab and Cybertruck in New York City.

- American University’s Kogod School of Business has ranked Tesla vehicles as the most American-Made cars. In order of rank and percentage of domestic content, Tesla's Model 3 Performance is No.1 at 87.5%. The Model Y Long Range and RWD are No.2 at 85%. Cybertruck is No.3 at 82.5%. The Model S and X No.4 at 80%.

- New pics posted by Tesla China of a Ultra Red Model S in Shanghai.

- Per Elon, "Tesla is absurdly efficient at inference, because we’re limited by a ~200W in-car computer and actually can’t brute force a solution with several kW of Nvidia GPUs."

- China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has approved Cybertruck's specification declaration. Looks like Cybertruck will be available in the Chinese market soon. H/T Yan Chang (@cyfoxcat).

- Last week, members of the Vesper Energy development team visited the 140MW Solar and 50 MW Megapack project under construction at the Diamond Tail Solar project in New Mexico. "In the background, crews skillfully set a Tesla Megapack on its foundation in the BESS yard—a remarkable moment that showcases the innovation and precision involved in projects like these."

- Sinovoltaics has ranked Tesla the No.1 most financially stable company out of 55 battery energy storage manufacturers. Mustang Battery was ranked 2nd.

- And that's how Christmas arrived in Tesla Brescia store... Pic by Tesla's Marta Gentili.

- Per Tesla China VP Grace Tao Lin, "After driving more than 200,000 miles, which is equivalent to eight laps around the earth's equator, the battery capacity of Model 3 and Model Y can still reach about 85%, while the battery capacity of Model S and Model X remains at about 88%. After more than a decade of verification by millions of car owners around the world, you don't need to worry about the battery life of a Tesla."

- Powerwall 3s Freedom Solar Power in Austin, Texas

FLYOVERS (flight links in sources section):

Giga Texas: Joe Tegtmeyer (@JoeTegtmeyer), 11th of December, '24. More Cybercab testing and ground leveling for the new Cortex Cluster's Megapack site.

Giga Berlin: Tobias Lindh (@tobilindh), 10th of December, '24. Nice walk through of the Christmas Market in front of the main lobby.

■ SPACEX:

- Block 2 Starship 33 (Flight 7) rolled to Massey's Outpost today to begin its Static Fire campaign.

- Investors have agreed to purchase as much as $1.25 billion of insider shares, valuing SpaceX at $350 billion. This place the share price at $185, up from $112 per prior valuation less than three months ago. SpaceX is offering to purchase as much as $500 million worth of common stock. This makes SpaceX the most valuable private company on earth.

Per Elon, "What’s really crazy about this is that almost no investors wanted to sell shares even at a $350B valuation! SpaceX reduced the amount of shares it bought back from employees in order to allow some new investors in."

- Yesterday, Starship 35's nose cone rolled into the high bay. It will soon be stacked onto the payload section. This is the 3rd Block 2 Starship and is expected to launch for Flight 9. Pic by @StarshipGazer.

- The first of two horizontal liquid methane tanks have arrived at the launch complex and is ready to install. Another great pic by Starship Gazer.

- Per Jared Isaacman (@rookisaacman) today at the Spacepower Conference in Orlando, "The future of the Polaris program is a little bit of a question mark at the moment. It may wind up on hold for a moment."

Countdown to 144 (123- 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. ET, 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. Pic of the laser retroflector arrays delivered by the U.S. Space Force for GPS III SV10.
Launch 134! Monday, 16th of December, at 1:33 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 NROL-149 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. This is 6th batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office to provide imaging and other reconnaissance capabilities.
Launch 135! Monday, 16th of December, at 10:37 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 4x Astranis MicroGEO 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. This is four Astranis MicroGEO communications satellites that will be inserted in a custom geostationary orbit, from where they will conduct on-orbit maneuvers to reach their individual slots.

Launch 136! Tuesday, 17th of December, at 8:26 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 Thuraya 4-NGS 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. Thuraya 4-NGS is a communication satellite being built by Airbus Defense and Space for the UAE based Yahsat. Based on the all-electric Airbus Eurostar-Neo Platform, Thuraya 4-NGS will incorporate a large 12-meter L-band antenna and a payload with on-board processing providing advanced routing flexibility of up to 3200 channels with dynamic power allocation over a large number of spot beams.

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■ THE BORING COMPANY:

- More steel beams installed on the westside exit of the Cyber-tunnel at Giga Texas. Pics via Joe Tegtmeyer.

■ NEURALINK: N/A...

■ STARLINK:

- Brazilian retail store Atacadão (@atacadao_sa) has successfully installed Starlink in all 396 locations! Per Wagner Souza Jr, Atacadão IT Senior Infrastructure Analyst, "Today we have completed our audacious project and all 396 stores have Starlink connectivity."

Per SpaceX's VP of Starlink Business Operations Lauren Dreyer (@laurendreyer06), "Thank you Atacadão for being a Starlink enterprise customer, and congrats on the completion of install at all 396 stores!"

Per SpaceX's Nick Galano (@nickgalano), "So proud of the teams that worked to put this together! Schools, stores, businesses… Starlink enables them in Brazil!"

- The State of Maine has opened the Maine Connectivity Authority's (@MEConnectivityThe) portal for 9,000 eligible locations to apply for a free Starlink kit. This is being done through the Working Internet ASAP (WIA) Program. Application link in the sources section.

- Starlink Mini is now available in Canada for a discounted $399 until the 6th of January 6, 2025. The Unlimited Plan is $189/month and Roam is $70/month.

- Starlink is now available in Timor-Leste. This marks the 116th country, territory, or market around the world where the service is available.

■ X:

- Nuseir Yassin (@nasdaily) of NAS Company at the New York X office with the X Team brainstorming an idea for a X Creator Summit. Can't wait to hear more about this.

- Per X Japan CEO Ayumu Matsuyama (@ayumu_matsuyama), "NEXT is a proposal for a new way of advertising using AI. Grok uncovers insights, Grok comes up with planning ideas, and Grok creates key visuals. Only Grok, which understands what consumers really think, can do this." Grok created advertising makes sense.

■ xAI:

- Per Elon, "Searches for Grok, made by xAI, just exceeded 50% of searches for ChapGPT."

- Per xAI's Lianmin Zheng (@lm_zheng), "We released a new image generation model that was trained from scratch at xAI! It has been fun optimizing the inference for it. Because it's an autoregressive model, we can easily port it to SGLang and reuse all the great optimizations like the new zero-overhead batch scheduler, torch.compile, and many custom kernels."

- Per xAI's Xuechen Li (@lxuechen), "One of the best parts of working at xAI is working with and learning from talented and hard-working colleagues. consider applying if you work on optimizing inference."

■ ELON NEWS:

- Per OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar on Elon and his political ties with Donald Trump, "We trust him...as a competitor, he will put first the national interest and compete appropriately."

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