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A historic photo from nearly 18 years ago showing Jon Edwards and Elon Musk celebrating as SpaceX's Falcon 1 successfully reached Earth orbit on its fourth attempt
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BIG NEWS: SpaceX has given me approval to fly their locations and bring updates to their locations without TFRs! Thank you Brian, James, and SpaceX Security for helping set up this program. It really means a lot to me. You guys rock!
SPACEX: For my first flight I went to the Starlink / Starmind Campus in Bastrop, Texas. There is a ton of work taking place. Here is a list of the build sites currently underway.
- Solar Ingots and Wafers Facility: This is for upstream silicon production for ingots and wafers that feed solar cell manufacturing. SpaceX is well into the groundworks as they clear and level a massive plot next to the Solar Cell Factory. They will both eventually be connected.
- Solar Cells Factory: This is a ~1.1–1.5 million sq ft multi-floor structure currently under construction south of the main Starlink plant. It is designed for high-volume solar cell output with a target ~10 GW/year. Much of the outer walls, windows, and roof is installed.
- Starlink Factory: This is the OG building that has undergone multiple expansions. It houses high-volume Starlink kit production, printed circuit boards, and semiconductor packaging.
- Warehouse and AI Satellite Development Facility: It is described in conceptual layouts for storage, AI satellite R&D, and related operations. This building has gone up super fast. It started months after the Solar Cells Factory and is now well beyond it.
- Starmind / AI Satellite Production Factory: This area is still grass with a small section near the highway now be cleared and leveled. It will be the large-scale Starmind satellite manufacturing building.
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BREAKING: Elon Musk reclaims trillionaire status as SpaceX rallies on Wall Street.
There's a lot of ground to cover when you're building a Moon Base.
During the first phase of @NASAMoonBase development, robotic rovers will gather new details about the lunar South Pole region, while lunar terrain vehicles will extend the reach of each Artemis mission.
Great progress by the Tesla team!
Q3 Shareholder Update → ir.tesla.com
Highlights
– FSD Supervised attach rate grew to over 75% of new vehicle deliveries in NA
– Unveiled the next-gen Roadster
– Record deliveries in Canada, Australia, Japan & Taiwan
– Tesla Semi now in volume production. Top variant can go up to 500 miles at a full 82,000 lbs while achieving efficiency of 1.7 kWh/mile – about a third of the energy a comparable diesel truck burns for the same load
– Ended the quarter with the largest backlog for our passenger vehicles in 4 years!
FSD Supervised
– 4 new approvals since Q2 (Croatia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Slovakia)
– FSD is now live in nine EU countries & used by over 100,000 customers logging more than 160 million kilometers since initial approval
Robotaxi
– Deployed Cybercab into our Austin fleet
– Hit nearly 2 million cumulative unsupervised miles, 8x growth in the quarter
– Austin service now runs 6 am to midnight, with wait times continuing to come down as we add cars & improve the orchestration algorithms
– Added Grok to Cybercab with Grok Bot & Connectors, letting you interface with your inbox, calendar, files, chats and tasks, all by voice.
Transport, office & living room in one
Robotics
– Started production of @Tesla_Optimus on our high-volume lines in Fremont.
These are the first production-quality bots we've built, proving that the current manufacturing process for Optimus is suitable for a commercial product
SI Compute
– On track for 400 MW of training compute by year end, feeding both vehicle & humanoid autonomy
– Austin Fab construction continues, equipment commissioning planned for 2027
Battery
– Battery supply is still the limiter on how fast we ramp vehicles globally, so we're expanding on every front: pack capacity in Berlin, cathode and lithium refining in Texas, LFP cells in Nevada
– Shipped the first Megapacks built entirely with our own LFP cells
– Increasing 4680 output to support ramp of Cybercab, Semi & Model Y
Energy
– Megafactory Texas is up & running, with Megapack 3 production started
– Highest-ever order rate & backlog for energy storage
Grid constraints & power availability are making Megapack the answer for SI infrastructure demand: it excels at supplying large data center loads, smooths out demand spikes, helps new projects meet grid connection rules & makes the grid itself more stable
All with less local fossil fuel generation
Supporting Infrastructure
– Added 2,100+ net new Supercharger stalls, up 14% year over year
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BREAKING: United CEO says customers are switching from other airlines because of @Starlink
“We already see customers moving from other airlines today”
United will cross 50% of flights with Starlink this week and expects to finish its full fleet rollout by the end of next year.
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Gwynne Shotwell has got to be the most impressive woman of our generation. Mad respect.
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What an honor to be in NYC for the SpaceX IPO with @mayemusk. Watching a mother celebrate her son’s extraordinary achievement is something truly special. I will remember this day forever. ❤️
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The Empress of the Moon and Mars! 🚀
Congratulations, @Gwynne_Shotwell!!!
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