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(FREE) Want to Know: Your Daily Musk Companies Update (Patreon)
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23rd of December, 2024
"Strange things happen when particles are very still..." - Elon
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FYI: Starting today I am on Christmas Holiday until the 2nd of January!
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■ TESLA $TSLA ($430.60, +2.27%):
- Tesla Palo Alto HQ. What a shot by Tesla's Ryan Torres (@RyanTorresTesla)!
- Chilean utility Colbun has secured a new $205 million Megapack contract with Tesla. They will install 233 Megapack, 228 MW/912 MWh, for their Celda Solar project in the Arica y Parinacota region, northern Chile. It is expected to be online in 2026 and provide enough electricity for 55,480 homes. The Celda Solar farm will have a capacity of 422 MW.
- A line of Megapacks in Memphis for the xAI Colossus Super Cluster. This pic is by xAI's Brent Mayo (@BrentM_SpaceX). "Back when weather was warm, leaves were green and we began receiving enough megapacks to power our little baby 100k colossus cluster. Huge s/o to the Tesla and xAI teams on engineering the solution with Grok level speed! Certain we have the record time from offload to deployment/implementation but again, always room for improvement!"
- On Friday, Tesla Semi Lead Dan Priestley (@danWpriestley), posted that the new Semi Factory at Giga Nevada topped off the main area of the building with the last major piece of structural steel. Per Dan, "Fantastic design and execution by this construction team and our contractor partners with focus on safety and efficiency. This factory is going to rock! Note, there is another part of the building on an intentionally different timeline that has steel work remaining. Keep an eye out for progress there!"
- Tesla has stated they will open over 630 Supercharger stalls and over 50 sites in Canada for 2025. They even listed some of the locations. Get the list in the sources section.
- There is a new Tesla Pop-up Store in the Swindon Designer Outlet on Kemble Drive. Per Tesla's Dawid Fedyk, "I’m incredibly proud to announce the opening of Tesla in Swindon in the UK! Whether you’re an EV enthusiast, a Tesla owner, or simply curious, me and my team can’t wait to welcome you and share the Tesla experience with you. Thank you to the team involved in the behind the scenes work to put this all together."
- Starting Q1 2025, Hyundai will be giving free NACS adapters to their current EV owners. The 2025 IONIQ 5 is the first non-Tesla with a native NACS port.
- Tesla employees can finally use their referral code.
- You can apply your Tesla Referral Credits toward your FSD subscription. 1 referral equals 10 months.
- First responders testing out Unplugged Performance's (@UnpluggedTesla) UPFIT Model Y Police vehicles in an Emergency Vehicle Operation Course (EVOC) at the Atlanta Motorsports Park. "I have to say, I'm thoroughly impressed!"
- Starting today, Tesla Israel will have a self-service test drive at the Supercharger in Petah Tikva. This is a contactless location – simply sign up on the website for a test drive, gain access via the Tesla app, and hit the road!
FLYOVERS (flight links in sources section):
Giga Texas: Joe Tegtmeyer (@JoeTegtmeyer), 23rd of December, '24. Joe did a live stream flyover on YouTube today. Which I thought was great. He was taking questions and suggestions as he flew. The bove pics shows the progress of the Model Y factory exit. Looks like Cyber-burns at this point. Hard to say what it will look like once completed. You can also see that the new Megapack site has helical piers in place. Subscribe to Joe and support his work.
Giga Nevada Semi Factory: Zanegler (@HinrichsZane), 22nd of December, '24. Another excellent video by Zane. Check out the Stamping Foundation! We also get to see where Dan took his pics once the final steel beam was put in place on the main factory. Subscribe to Zane and support his work.
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■ SPACEX:
- Friday night, SpaceX rolled Super Heavy Booster 15 (Flight 8) to Massey's Outpost for cryo-testing!
- On Saturday, launch 135 of Falcon 9 Bandwagon 2 took place from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. This was the 21st flight of the first stage booster. It previously launched NROL-87, NROL-85, SARah-1, SWOT, Transporter-8, Transporter-9, NROL-146, and 13 Starlink missions. The booster returned to Vandenberg and landed at Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4). This was 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. For a full break down of all the payloads, check out my article clicking HERE.
- At 12:35 a.m. this morning, launch 136 of Falcon 9 Starlink 12-2 took place from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. This was the 14th flight for the first stage booster. It previously launched Axiom-2, Axiom-3, CRS-30, SES 24, Cygnus NG-21, Euclid, and 7 Starlink missions. The booster landed on drone ship Just Read the Instructions in the Atlantic Ocean. 21 Starlinks were deployed, including 13 Direct to Cell.
- Saturday's launch of Falcon 9 4x Astranis MicroGEO was aborted at the moment of engine ignition. The water suppression system was activated just seconds before the abort call.
- Hot Stage Ring (HSR) getting prepped for installation atop Super Heavy Booster 14.
- Palantir Technologies ($PLTR )and startup Anduril Industries are talking with SpaceX and many other tech companies, including OpenAI, to form a consortium to jointly bid on U.S. government contracts. The aim is to take on traditional defense giants such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, and RTX, most likely with artificial intelligence-enabled autonomous technology.
- After a Gulf of Mexico splashdown last week, Cargo Dragon CRS-31 arrived at Port Canaveral Saturday morning aboard SpaceX recovery ship Megan.
- During RGV Aerial Photography's (@RGVaerialphotos) recent flyover, Zack Golden (@CSI_Starbase) spotted what looks like Air Separation Unit (ASU) components at the Port of Brownsville. If this is for SpaceX, they will have on site Liquid Oxygen (LOX) and Nitrogen (LN2). If you remember, SpaceX previously had an Air Separation Plant at the Sanchez site, but as Zack stated, there was not adequate power and they still had to truck it to the launch site. Check out Zack's excellent breakdown in the sources section.
- Starship 36, 37, and 38 inside the Starfactory. Pic by Carlos, the Starbase Surfer (@cnunezimages). Subscribe to Carlos.
Countdown to 144 (130 - Falcon 9, 2 - Falcon Heavy, and 4 - Starship):
Launch 137! Friday, 27th of December, at 12:00 a.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. Pics are of Thuraya 4-NGS being encapsulated in the Falcon 9 fairings.
Launch 138! Saturday, 28th of December, at 5:35 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 11-3 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 139! TBD, 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.
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■ THE BORING COMPANY:
- The Cyber-Tunnel has more stainless steel cladding installed. Pic from Joe Tegtmeyer's flyover today. Per Joe, there is a short awning in the shape of the front trunk.
- The Boring Company tunnel from the Riviera station to Resorts World. Pic by Michel (@Mic_VegasSphere).
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■ NEURALINK: N/A...
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■ STARLINK:
- U.S. Embassy of Papua New Guinea has partnered with the government to bring aid to the people of Vanuatu in the aftermath of the December 17th earthquake. Here, Ambassador Ann Marie Yastishock is giving a Starlink kit to airport officials to help restore connectivity.
- According to SpaceX's Michael Nicolls (@michaelnicollsx), Starlink Aviation, is now on over 430 planes.
- On Friday, Starlink announced it is now available in Kosovo. Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti stated yesterday that the arrival of Starlink is an important step in advancing digital infrastructure in the country. Per his Facebook, "Starlink has proven to be incredibly important in enabling critical communications during natural disasters or other national emergencies."
- Red Lightning, an emergency and relief service out of Mesa, Arizona, with the Salvation Army in Zambia have donated 4 Starlinks including subscriptions for 1 year to the Chikankatta Hospital, remote clinics, and additional sites. "Our Starlink program allows us to sponsor NGOs around the world to provide fast internet connectivity to locations supporting disaster response and medical equity. This will greatly improve the communications capacities of medical teams in the field, improving the speed of diagnostics, including imagery, and reporting. We hope that it is the first of many such sponsorships!"
- One New Zealand (@onenzofficial) customers have already sent over 20 thousand messages through Starlink Direct to Cell. The are close to 10 percent of eligible customers accessing the network.
- Richard Grenell, President-elect Trump's newly appointed Special Envoy for Global Missions, has urged Elon to bring Starlink to Pakistan. Grenell is a former Director of National Intelligence, with recent involvement in Pakistani politics.
- Per Malick, Software Engineer, "In a few years I will be in the depths of a peaceful corner of Senegal, in my native dahra djolof or somewhere in Casamance. Between coding sessions connected to Starlink and afternoons aboard a tractor to plough my fields. The good life, the perfect balance. The dream... The tractor will be driven by an AI."
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■ X:
- X is increasing the Premium+ subscription to $22/month, up from $16/month. Premium+ subscribers will have access to completely ad-free browsing, priority support via X Premium (@Premium) DMs, access to new features, and higher limits on Grok.
- Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) will be a keynote speaker at CES 2025. She will join Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) in a conversation on Tuesday, the 7th of January, at 1:30 PM in the Palazzo Ballroom at the Venetian. Registration link in the sources section.
- The new Grok Profile Summary is active on web and iOS and gives you a quick overview of the user's interest and what they tend to post on there feed. Android is coming soon.
- You can now have Grok create an image directly from the post composer on web and iOS. Video by xAI's Bustin (@abustin).
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■ xAI:
- Australia has early access to the Grok iOS standalone app. Other countries will launch soon. If you would like to try the iOS app, the link is in the sources section.
- According to Elon xAI will soon add a 'Grok Enhance' tool for post composition. It is to offer improvements ranging from grammar and typos to offering information and arguments.
- Elon has stated that Grok is not getting the new black hole logo. Which sucks. It is a badass logo.
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■ ELON NEWS:
- A federal judge ruled that Elon and X Corp. were citizens of California when the former CNN anchor Don Lemon filed his suit for fraud in September. The case is to stay in San Francisco.
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■ SOURCES:
FLYOVERS:
Giga Texas: Joe Tegtmeyer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYO6C6v_6I0
Giga Nevada Semi Factory: Zanegler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VNCUMsUrPw
Tesla:
Canada Supercharger List https://x.com/TeslaCharging/status/1870999758267097549
SpaceX:
Zack Golden ASU https://x.com/CSI_Starbase/status/1870841075751108649
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xAI:
Elon News:
