ELON CHRON: Your 24hr Musk Companies Update (Patreon)

9th of June, 2025

"Whatever happens, we have got the spaceships, and they do not..." - Elon Musk (@elonmusk)

■ TESLA $TSLA ($308.58, +4.55%):

- The City of Irvine Police Department's Cybertruck by UP.FIT (@UpfitTesla). Pics by Jeff Bowman.

- Tesla is attempting to block the city of Austin from releasing public records to Reuters regarding the Robotaxi launch on the 12th of June. Tesla says that the disclosure of "confidential, proprietary, competitively sensitive commercial, and/or trade secret information" would "irreparably harm" the company by revealing its deployment procedures, processes, status, and strategy. Austin’s public records officer, Neal Falgoust, stated the city takes no position on the confidentiality but is required to seek an opinion from the Texas Attorney General, as Tesla claims the information is proprietary. Reuters argues the public has a right to know due to the "unproven" technology’s deployment on Texas roads.

- Today, Tesla was listed as a "Known AV Operator" on the Austin DMV website. H/T Tesla Yoda (@teslayoda).

- Tesla opened their 12th Tesla store and service center in the North Texas region this weekend in Flower Mound. Clinton of Our Cyber Weekend (@vanquishfoes) was there grilling from his custom built Cybertruck kitchen. CJP (@mrtimer2022) has his space themed Cybertruck on hand. Customers and their kids got to put their hand prints on Cybertruck in the new service center. Looked like a great grand opening.

- Tesla is preparing to launch the 7-seat version of the Model Y. A customer email is going out teasing its arrival.

- Milan Kovac is leaving the company after nearly a decade at Tesla. He has been leading the Optimus project since 2022. Milan has stressed it is to prioritize family abroad and nothing else. His role is assumed by Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s Autopilot software director since 2019. Per Milan, "I want to thank the outstanding leaders, engineers, recruiters, technicians, operators, HR partners and everyone I’ve been blessed to share a part of my life with. I want to thank Elon from the bottom of my heart for his trust and teachings over the decade we’ve worked together. Elon, you’ve taught me to discern signal from noise, hardcore resilience, and many fundamental principles of engineering. I am forever grateful. Tesla will win, I guarantee you that."

Per Elon, "Milan, thank you for your outstanding contribution to Tesla over the past decade. It was an honor working with you. Enjoy the time with family."

- Tesla has opened the 140,000-square-foot collision and sales center at 3650 Dudley Blvd in McClellan Park of North Sacramento. This facility has flags outside of the driveway with one reading Pre-Owned and more than 75 Teslas of different years and models securely contained on the 8.6-acre lot.

- Tesla plans to open a service center at 5045 Warden Road in North Little Rock, Arkansas, on a 3-acre lot previously occupied by Reuber Automotive. They have secured a $5.1 million lease.

- New video of the 2026 Model S Plaid refresh and the upcoming Model Y performance on the track at Nurburgring has been posted by CarSpyMedia.

- The 2025.20.3 software update released for AI 4 Model Y vehicles introduces a toggle to switch between the original narrow and a new wide-angle backup camera view. It enlarges side camera feeds for a wider field of view, adds a zoom feature for the Dashcam viewer on Ryzen-based vehicles, and enables deleting multiple Dashcam clips at once.

FLYOVERS (flight links in sources section):

• Giga Nevada Semi Factory: Zanegler (@HinrichsZane), 8th of June, '25.

• Giga Texas: Brad Sloan, 8th of June, '25.

■ SPACEX:

- Friday night, launch 72 of Falcon 9 Sirius SXM-10 took place from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. This was the eighth flight for first stage booster B1085. It previously launched Crew-9, RRT-1, Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1, Fram2, and three Starlink missions. The booster landed on drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean.

SXM-10 is the 11th high-powered, digital, audio radio satellite built by Maxar (SSL) for SiriusXM. It has a large, mesh, unfurlable reflector 10 meters in diameter that allows SiriusXM programming to reach its radios, including those in moving vehicles. SXM-10 was successfully deployed.

- Around mid-night on Saturday, Super Heavy Booster 16 left the launch complex and returned to Mega Bay 1 to continue Flight 10 prep.

- Sunday morning, launch 73 of Falcon 9 Starlink 15-8 took place from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. This was the seventh flight for first stage booster B1088. It previously launched NROL-126, Transporter-12, SPHEREx, NROL-57 and two Starlink missions. The booster landed on drone ship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean. 26 Starlinks were deployed.

- Saturday morning, Falcon 9 booster B1094 and the new Crew Dragon C213 rolled out to LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Later that day the vehicles went vertical. On Sunday SpaceX performed a static fire. Launch of Axiom Space’s Ax-4 mission is currently scheduled for Wednesday.

- The steel plates are now being installed in the Pad 2's flame trench to protect the concrete base, and the cladding on the right side of the Tower.

- Booster 18.1 (Test Tank 17) had its cap installed and header tank strapped up. Pic by Carlos, the Starbase Surfer (@cnunezimages).

Countdown to 180 (70 - Falcon 9, 0 - Falcon Heavy, and 3 - Starship):

• Launch 74! Tuesday, 10th of June, at 9:03 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 12-24 will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

• Launch 75! Wednesday, 11th of June, at 8:22 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 Axiom Space Mission 4 (Ax4) will launch from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. This will be the maiden flight of Crew Dragon C213, the fifth and final Crew Dragon spacecraft built by SpaceX. The booster B1094 will return to site, and land at Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Crew consists of Commander Peggy Whitson (United States of America), Pilot Shubhanshu Shukla (India), Mission Specialist Sławosz Uznański (Poland), and Mission Specialist Tibor Kapu (Hungary).

• Launch 76! Thursday, 12th of June, at 6:46 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 15-6 will launch from Space Launch Complex 4E (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 77! Friday, 13th of June, at 7:45 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 12-26 will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

• Launch 78! Monday, 16th of June, at 5:51 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 15-19 will launch from Space Launch Complex 4E (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.

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■ THE BORING COMPANY:

- Michel (@Mic_VegasSphere) got a great view of the Vegas LOOP dig site south of the Convention Center Monorail stop. Per Michel, "It looks like a junction between Central Hall going up or down Paradise Rd. I can’t see it, but I believe there is a tunnel leading to Encore on the near side. Interesting that both tunnel walls are already finished." This junction probably allows drivers to switch tunnels and not for passengers.

Here are pics of the same dig site by Nevada Ready Mix.

■ NEURALINK:

- Neuralink Co-Founder DJ Seo (@djseo_) showed us the Neuralink prototype lab Saturday. Organization skill level maximized!

- Also by DJ Seo (@djseo_), "Top students from top universities in China go on to work for the government or state-affiliated institutions. It’s considered high prestige. Top students from top universities in the US do not (except recently with DOGE). It’s not even a fair fight."

■ STARLINK:

- Last week, Remote Area Risk International delivered training were they conducted a field test in Sweden, using Starlink Mini for a Zoom call during a canoeing expedition. This test was part of a client expedition company’s risk management strategy for their staff’s extensive medical and risk management training.

- United Airlines has disabled Starlink on about two dozen Embraer E175 regional jets due to radio interference causing static on pilots' VHF radios used for air traffic control. United says this is common with new Wi-Fi systems and poses no safety risk. Per United, "Starlink is now installed on about two dozen United regional aircraft. United and Starlink teams are working together to address a small number of reports of static interference during the operation of the Wi-Fi system, which is fairly common with any new airline Wi-Fi provider. We expect the service to be back up and running on these aircraft soon." United plans to reconfigure 40 more E175s this month and begin installing Starlink on CRJ-550 jets soon, equipping all dual-class regional jets by year-end.

- On the 3rd of June, Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest telecommunications operator, successfully completed its first Starlink Direct-to-Cell connection. The Ukrainian operator’s mobile SIM card was successfully recognized by the Starlink satellite system. The connection was tested in Kyiv, with plans to expand SMS, voice, and internet services nationwide by Q2 2026, pending regulatory approval from the National Commission for State Regulation of Electronic Communications.

- Brooks Westbrook, SpaceX Sr. Director of Sales Architecture for Starlink, presented at Cisco Live in San Diego this morning with Shahid Ajmeri. They discussed technical integrations between Starlink and Cisco across various use cases. in session BRKMSI-1000.

- Space Norway, on of Northern Europe’s leading satellite operator, signed an agreement with SpaceX to provide Starlink services effective immediately for global maritime mobility and EMEA land-based enterprise clients.

■ X:

- X CEO Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX) and Jessica Reif Ehrlich (@jrc1202) at the Bank of America Media in Montauk event. "Thrilled to speak at Media in Montauk to share the game changing transformation of X and the greatness of xAI with incredible ecosystem leaders."

- X will again be part of Cannes Lions for 2025, the world's biggest celebration of creativity and advertising. No word yet if Elon will participate like last year.

- Per Elon, "The biggest change that people should notice as we shift the recommendation algorithm to use more of Grok AI is that banger posts from small accounts should start showing up in your feed. To be clear, Grok is used only slightly right now, but will be used heavily."

- X Money will be FDIC insured up to $250,000 and will receive wire transfers from U.S banks.

- The X Safety & Moderation facility (now HQ) in Bastrop, Texas. Pic by Josh West (@JoshWest247).

■ xAI:

- Per xAI's Hieu Pham (@hyhieu226), "At xAI, we grind through weekends. We take pride in the hard work. And we are rewarded for it. What a surprise today!"

■ DOGE:

Estimated Savings: $180 Billion

Amount Saved Per Taxpayer: $1,118.01

- DOGE posted that after 14 weeks, the Credit Card Audit program has expanded to 55 agencies resulting in ~610k de-activated cards. At the start of the audit, there were ~4.6M active cards/accounts.

- DOGE announced the U.S. General Services Administration has saved ~$800k/year by eliminating ~1,700 unused phone plans, switching plans for many of the remaining ones, and eliminating 2,218 unused cellular equipment payments. The Small Business Administration reduced its Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) licenses from 9,195 to 2,690, eliminating 6,505 unused/unnecessary subscriptions and saving ~$469k/year.

■ ELON NEWS:

- Looks like calmer heads may prevail. Per President Trump on getting rid of his Model S, “No, I may move the Tesla around a little bit.” On Starlink Trump said, “It’s a good service.” And he said the following on Elon, "Look, I wish him well. We had a good relationship and I just wish him well, very well actually."

- Per Elon, "Actually, humanity is only about 1% of the way towards a Type I civilization. We could generate at least 2 orders of magnitude more electricity than we do now."

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■ SOURCES:

FLYOVERS:

• Giga Nevada Semi Factory: Zanegler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LriCDt62cu4

• Giga Texas: Brad Sloan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBrg2tBGM3c

Tesla:

• https://www.pcmag.com/news/tesla-tries-to-block-access-to-public-records-ahead-of-austin-robotaxi

• https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/tesla-service-center-north-little-rock/91-45fe2e7d-f233-44b1-a8f3-6a50375ac539

• https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/2801/tesla-update-202520-adds-multiple-camera-improvements-video

• https://www.austintexas.gov/page/autonomous-vehicles

SpaceX:

• SXM-10 Mission

• Starlink Mission 15-8

Starlink:

• https://thepointsguy.com/airline/united-starlink-wifi-issues/

• https://www.ciscolive.com/global/learn/thought-leadership.html

• https://thedigitalship.com/news/maritime-satellite-communications/space-norway-is-authorised-starlink-reseller/

Elon News:

• Elon Quote: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1931806069220954360