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Want to Know: Your Daily Musk Companies Update (Patreon)
Content
17th of December, 2024
"Probably >180 Falcon launches in 2025…" - Elon Musk
■ TESLA $TSLA ($479.86, +3.64%):
- Yesterday, Bennett (bennettm) spotted three Tesla Semis full of cars back to back in the Bay Area. Put'em to work!
- Tesla accused Germany's IG Metall union of trying to create unrest at Giga Berlin by trying to remove the head of the works council. IG Metall confirmed it filed a motion with a local court to remove the plant's works council head. That person is not a member of the union.
- The Founders Bay held their AI Holiday Party and TheAgentic Launch at their local Tesla Store in San Francisco,California. There were 180 Cybertruck test drives that night! Founders Bay is a leading venture studio for AI startups in the Bay Area. TheAgentic is a LLM for AI Agents.
- At Giga Shanghai they have a large koi fish tank outside the workshop uses treated factory wastewater. H/T DriveGreenLiveGreen (@DriveGreen80167).
- Cybercab and Optimus viewed from above at the Tesla Amsterdam HQ.
- the U.S. Department of Justice has sentenced Klaus Pflugbeil, a 59 year old German-Canadian resident of China, to 24 months in prison for stealing electric vehicle trade secrets from Tesla for his competing EV battery business. Per U.S. Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen, "In stealing trade secrets from an American electric vehicle manufacturer to use in his own China-based company, Pflugbeil's actions stood to benefit the (People's Republic of China) in a critical industry with national security implications."
- The Tesla Shop dropped a Cybertruck Wind-up Racer for $35. Sold out in less than 20 minutes.
- New Cybertruck Police Truck spotted in Qatar.
■ SPACEX:
- This morning, launch 133 of Falcon 9 NROL-149 took place from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. This is the 22nd flight for the first stage booster. It previously launched Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, DART, SDA-0B, Iridium OneWeb, Transporter-7, NROL-113, NROL-167, and 14 Starlink missions. The booster landed 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. The agency says it has placed more than 100 payloads into orbit over the past 18 months.
- Yesterday, launch 132 of Falcon 9 GPS III SV10 RRT-1 took place from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral, Florida. This was the fourth flight for the first stage booster. It previously launched Crew-9 and two Starlink missions. The booster landed on drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean. Moon pic by Brandon Berkoff (@spacebrandonb).
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. GPS III RRT-1 was successfully deployed.
- Last night, after a successful static fire campaign, Starship 33 left Massey's and returned to Mega Bay 2. Time to start the next steps for Flight-7.
- The SpaceX sign at the launch complex has been removed as they reiterate for a new entrance for Starship and Super Heavy.
- Single engine static fire demonstrating a flight-like startup for an in-space burn.
- Splashdown of Cargo Dragon C-208 was confirmed, completing SpaceX’s 31st Commercial Resupply Services mission to the ISS.
- The Union Pacific Railroad (@UnionPacific) posted the above pic of the West Coast launch from their Phoenix Intermodal yard.
- An article by the New York Times states there are at least three ongoing federal reviews by the U.S. Air Force and the Defense Department concerning potential failures in compliance with national security reporting protocols by SpaceX and Elon. These reviews focus on whether the company and its leader adhered to disclosure protocols intended to protect state secrets. Per Elon, "Deep state traitors are coming after me, using their paid shills in legacy media. I prefer not to start fights, but I do end them…"
Countdown to 144 (127 - Falcon 9, 2 - Falcon Heavy, and 4 - Starship):
Launch 134! Tuesday, 17th of December, at 3:59 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 135! Thursday, 19th of December, at 10:39 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 3:53 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 Bandwagon 2 will launch from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. The booster will return to Vandenberg and land at Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4). This is a dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers. Payloads include the South Korean government’s 425 Project Flight 3.
Launch 137! Friday, 20th of December, at 3:59 p.m. ET, Falcon Starlink 12-2 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.
Launch 138! Sunday, 22nd 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: N/A... boring.
■ NEURALINK: N/A...
■ STARLINK:
- Starlink and the northern lights by Daniel Sanoja (@DanielSanoja2).
- According market research firm Quilty Space, Starlink is projected to hit $11.8 billion in revenue for 2025, up from $7.7 billion in 2024. The projection includes $7.5 billion from consumer services, $1.3 billion in hardware sales, and $3 billion from U.S. government contracts. H/T FranciscoC (@Francis65037303).
■ X:
- X Business posted data so advertisers could see how engagement has increased in 2024. X hit a major milestone as a video-centric platform, with users watching 40% more video content YoY. Gen Z engaged with cultural relevance, authenticity, diverse content, and its role in promoting freedom of speech.
- The NBA and X have announced an extension of their multi-year partnership. This renewal promises to introduce new, innovative experiences in 2025 and beyond.
■ xAI:
- Another great shot by xAI's Brent Mayo (@BrentM_SpaceX) showing the meticulous cable installation of Colossus at the xAI Memphis Gigafactory of Compute. Brent needs hardcore, exceptionally skilled people to join the team. "The best can only get better and colossus is cooking so calling all chefs. Do not apply if you’re not hardcore. Apply if you have exceptional skills, traits and willingness to get better every single day."
- Today, Brent gave Tennessee State Senator Brent Taylor (@SenBrentTaylor) and Tennessee Senate Majority Leader and State Senator Jack Johnson (@SenJohnson) a tour of the xAI Memphis facility. "The focus is how elected officials are working to enhance the safety and security of the community, developing local workforce via high school and trade schools. And ensuring xAI continues to make Memphis/Shelby County greater as we progress into the AI revolution."
- Per xAI's Devin Kim (@devindkim), "Grokking posts is improving rapidly! Collecting data, training, and evaluating new models every day. Now that's what I call post-training." So every time you use Grok to analyze a post you are training it. Nice!
- Ali Ansari (@aliniikk) posted that xAI topped micro1's (@micro1_ai) candidate experience evals. 3,100 people rated their experience with our AI Interviewer in a 24h period. xAI was more accurate than any LLM judgement eval. xAI's latest model performed better than OpenAI. It's a little less consistent (as shown by the standard deviation charts) but candidate experience NPS has also increase by ~3%.
- Per Michael Dell (@MichaelDell), "Grok 2 is incredible, with the largest models estimated to have been trained on around 1 petabyte of data. We are just getting started. By 2025, the world will generate 200 zettabytes of data. That's 200 million petabytes! Imagine what happens when Grok 3, 4, 5, 6, and beyond tap into this massive ocean of data for training and inference. I'm looking forward that future!"
■ ELON NEWS:
- UK Reform Party leader Nigel Farage and treasurer Nick Candy met with Elon at Mar-a-Lago today.
- Senator Elizabeth Warren has asked President-elect Donald Trump to install conflict-of-interest rules that would apply to Elon. The Trump team replied, "Warren is a career politician whose societal impact is 1/1024th of Elon Musk. Trump's transition team is adhering to high ethical guidelines."
Per Elon, "The President was being very generous. Her societal impact is actually negative. The person actually writing these things from Pocahontas are SBF’s parents btw." Alleging that Warren’s scrutiny is influenced by Sam Bankman-Fried’s (SBF) parents and claimed that her criticisms are being written by them. What?!
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