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Friday the 13th 🔪😱... of December, 2024

"Mayhem sounds kinda fun..." - Elon Musk

■ TESLA $TSLA ($436.23, +4.34%):

- Cybercab is now on display at in the Netherlands at the Tesla Center in Amsterdam-Zuidoost. It will be there until the 31st of December.

- Cybercab will be on display in the following locations this weekend; Century City in Los Angeles, Park Meadows in Colorado, Lone Tree off Tampa Westshore Blvd in Tampa, Florida, Gold Coast in Chicago, and Garden State Plaza in Paramus, New Jersey.

- Yesterday, the Tesla Lithium Refinery held a SPOD Day and invited stakeholders to join in celebrating. Cybercab and Cybertrucks were on display. The Robstown Early College High School band was in attendance and culinary students served some refreshments for the guest.

- Tesla Semi doing Demo Drives at Giga Nevada for the Sunrun Company (@Sunrun). Per Sunrun CEO Mary Powell (@MaryGPowell), "Amazing to see the next level manufacturing that is happening within those walls... It was super cool to get to test out that sweet new all electric Semi! Drives like a car, amazing acceleration, range and performance."

- Tesla filed a patent for an electric motor stator integrated with a sealed fluid jacket cooling system. According to SETI Park (@seti_park), this will significantly reduce manufacturing complexity through its unique three-step production process while enabling higher sustained power output. this is done through thermal management and a simplified insulation design.

- Tesla China officially announced the launch of Actually Smart Summon (ASS).

- In the 2024 China New Energy Vehicle Industry Customer Satisfaction Index (NEV-CACSI), Tesla received four No.1 rankings. Model 3 got the highest customer satisfaction among pure electric mid-sized sedans. The Model Y got the highest customer satisfaction among pure electric mid-sized SUVs. Tesla was first in Sales Service Satisfaction and first in After-Sales Service Satisfaction. H/T DriveGreenLiveGreen (@DriveGreen80167).

- New Cybertruck and Model 3/Y Vinyl Wraps are available through Tesla for $4,000 to $4,500. Participating Service Centers are all in California except one in Washington. Locations are Costa Mesa, Oceanside, Santa Clara, West Covina, and Seattle, WA.

- Switzerland approved Fully Autonomous Vehicles beginning in March of 2025.

- Per Elon, "Your Tesla can now drive you from your house in one complex city to another house in a different complex city."

- The Model 3 received a 5-star rating with an avg score of 98% in the European Green NCAP test.

- The vehicle configurator is now live in Lithuania.

FLYOVERS (flight links in sources section):

• Giga Texas: Joe Tegtmeyer (@JoeTegtmeyer), 13th of December, '24. Cybercab testing continues. Glass work on the south east side progress.

• Giga Nevada Semi Factory: Zanegler (@HinrichsZane), 12th of December, '24. Roofing is nearly complete. Deep foundation work continues.

• Fremont Factory: MetGod, 11th of December, '24. Starlink Gateway antennas on a flatbed and the outbound lot has been updated and repainted.

■ SPACEX:

- SpaceX HQ by Carlos, the Starbase Surfer (@cnunezimages).

- Yesterday, SpaceX Starbase General Manager Kathy Lueders (@KathyLueders) filed a petition with Cameron County Judge Eddie Treviño Jr. (@JudgeTrevino) for a special election to have Starbase incorporated as a municipality. In others words, for Boca Chica and the surrounding area to officially be named Starbase, a city in the state of Texas.

Per Elon, "SpaceX HQ will now officially be in the city of Starbase, Texas!"

Per Texas Governor Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX), "This is excellent. Starbase, Texas. The official HQ for SpaceX. Proud to have you in Texas!"

Sheriff Eric Garza (@SheriffGarza) has posted that the petitioned to incorporate Starbase as a Type-C Municipality in Cameron County will be placed under review for compliance. If valid, voters in the proposed area will decide in an election and that County Judge Treviño is working to ensure all statutory requirements are met.

- The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley has been authorized to sell the Stargate building at Starbase to SpaceX. Once acquired, it is expected to be demolished as Starbase prepares for the Giga Bay! Pic by Carlos, the Starbase Surfer.

- At Starbase, a 3rd horizontal tank was spotted on its way to the launch complex. I guess we were wrong about there only being two.

- Starship 35's nose cone and payload section moved out of the High Bay and Starfactory.

- The first piece of Tower Two's water cooled flame deflector pipe was spotted at the Sanchez lot.

- Starship 33 might have performed a Spin Prime test at Massey's. If so, a Static Fire will be soon.

- NASA and SpaceX are now targeting Sunday, the 15th of December, for the next undocking of Cargo Dragon CRS-31 from the ISS.

- SpaceX has filed paperwork to build landing zones for Falcon 9 at Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

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

• Launch 131! Friday, 13th of December, at 1:55 p.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! Friday, 13th of December, at 8:04 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 GPS III SV10 RRT-1 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 133! Sunday, 15th of December, at 3:58 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 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! Tuesday, 17th of December, at 10:38 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! Friday, 20th 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.

■ THE BORING COMPANY:

- At Giga Texas, Joe Tegtmeyer took these shots today showing the stainless steel outer paneling being installed on the Cyber-Tunnel. You can also see the structure next to the tunnel on the right has transparent panels added.

- Steve Jurvetson (@FutureJurvetson) went trough the Boring tunnels in Bastrop and Giga Texas and the pics he took are amazing! Per Steve, "Went through two Boring tunnels in two towns today. This one is the longest vacuum tunnel in the world, for now. It has huge sliding steel doors on each side."

"Prufrock 3 tunneled under the highway to emerge inside the building, a first. As trucks roll off the assembly line, they will take this tunnel to final testing, warehousing and shipping without traveling on public roads. Teslas will be able to do this all autonomously. The exit will look like a big Cybertruck with vehicles streaming out of its frunk."

■ NEURALINK: N/A...

■ STARLINK:

- Steve Jurvetson was a the Starlink facility in Bastrop, Texas, today and stated the following; "The Starlink manufacturing line is the closest thing to a fully-automated alien dreadnought that I have ever seen. It makes 4.7 million terminals per year, and growing. One subsection is the largest printed circuit board factory in America."

- Starlink is now available in Nauru.

- andesDOMO, a logistical support and rescue company in Chile, has a outfitted their Hilux 2.8 reinforced rescue units with Starlink to provide first aid and support for mining camps throughout the Andes Mountain range in the country.

- Armenia’s Minister of High-Tech Industry, Mkhitar Hayrapetyan, has stated the Armenian Public Services Regulatory Commission (PSRC) has officially approved two key applications submitted by SpaceX's Starlink AM LLC ahead of schedule. The approvals, issued on the 4th and 13th of December and grant Starlink licenses to operate a public electronic communications network and to use radio frequency bands on a secondary basis for global satellite communication systems.

Per Hayrapetyan, "The licensing and permits have been provided, and now we enter the testing phase, which, I hope, will be completed in the coming months, and the service will be fully operational."

- Qatar Airways has launched its second Canadian destination, Toronto, which will include the installation of Starlink on 15 of their Boeing 777s.

■ 𝕏:

- X Lead EMEA Events Manager Shayma Tai just finished X's first ever X Wrapped 2024 event at the top of the Gherkin Building in London. "What a way to end the year and my first 6 months at X! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!"

- X CEO Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) in Japan with celebrity Kazuya Shimasa (@Shimasahead).

- 𝕏 will soon let you attach files to DMs in addition to Photos, Videos, and GIFs.

- The Grok Analysis button is now live on iOS. When you tap the button you get a grok summary of the post.

- X is adding an Add Experience button to profiles so users can show off their work history.

- The MENA 𝕏 team's Holiday event.

- So far for 2024, X has 364 billion Total Active user Seconds, up 10% YoY. Plus, 8.3 billion Daily Video Views, up 40% YoY.

■ xAI:

- The xAI Christmas tree in Memphis. Pic by xAI's Brent Mayo (@BrentM_SpaceX). "Crimas time."

- Grok can now explain meme jokes, produce 4 images simultaneously and render them progressively,

■ ELON NEWS:

- Elon posted a legal letter from his lawyer, Alex Spiro, regarding a reopened SEC investigation into Neuralink and a settlement demand related to Musk's acquisition of Twitter. The letter accuses the SEC of harassment and suggests political motivations behind their actions.

- Per California Democratic Rep Ro Khanna (@RepRoKhanna), "When you look at the IG Report about Boeing getting $150,000 for soap dispensers... There is a lot of waste in this budget. And my hope is actually with the committee that we will engage with Elon Musk."

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■ SUBSCRIBERS:

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Everybody have a great weekend!

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■ SOURCES:

FLYOVERS:

Giga Texas: Joe Tegtmeyer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO2_Phztopg

Giga Nevada Semi Factory: Zanegler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3ufsNsmIv4

Fremont Factory: MetGod https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOBJ-sybWpI

Tesla:

• https://www.greenncap.com/assessments/tesla-model-3-2024-0211/

• https://www.astra.admin.ch/astra/de/home/dokumentation/medienmitteilungen/anzeige-meldungen.msg-id-103529.html

Elon Quote https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1867648859914080577