SpaceX has released a new blog post about Starship’s 14th flight today.
“During Starship’s ascent burn, a single Raptor vacuum engine shut down early. Starship still achieved its planned, passively safe suborbital trajectory by burning its remaining five engines for longer than planned to compensate for the loss of thrust.
After entering its suborbital trajectory, the flight control team assessed Starship’s systems and determined the three sea-level Raptors engines needed for subsequent burns were healthy and gave a “go” for orbital operations. Starship then reignited a single Raptor sea-level engine to perform an orbit insertion burn and entered into orbit around Earth for the first time.
After a brief coast, Starship then deployed all 26 Starlink V3 satellites. Contact was made soon after with every satellite over laser links, ground stations, and Starlink user terminals. The satellites will now conduct on-orbit checkouts and raise their orbits before they begin serving customers.
Following payload deploy, Starship entered into a coast phase around Earth. Out of an abundance of caution given the engine issue experienced during ascent, the flight control team decided to limit the duration spent on orbit and proceeded with deorbiting Starship to a splashdown location in the northern Pacific Ocean. This area was one of two pre-coordinated landing zones identified before launch that was cleared of sea and air traffic.
Starship then relit a single Raptor sea-level engine and performed its first ever deorbit burn. That maneuver successfully brought the vehicle out of orbit and sent Starship through atmospheric reentry and descent to the intended splashdown point.
The first orbital Starship flight concluded with the vehicle relighting all three Raptor sea-level engines in a landing burn and flip maneuver before splashing down on target in the Pacific Ocean.”
Link to blog: https://t.co/dSkszwsmvP
GOOD NEWS 📰 Tesla will livestream the Semi rollout on 𝕏 🔥
Here is when to tune in around the world:
The Americas (Thursday, September 24)
🇺🇸 / 🇨🇦 6:00 PM PDT (Vancouver, Los Angeles)
🇨🇦 7:00 PM MDT (Calgary, Edmonton)
🇲🇽 7:00 PM CST (Mexico City, Monterrey)
🇺🇸 8:00 PM CDT (Austin, Chicago)
🇺🇸 / 🇨🇦 9:00 PM EDT (Toronto, New York)
🇨🇱 10:00 PM CLST (Santiago)
Europe & Middle East (Friday, September 25)
🇬🇧 / 🇮🇪 2:00 AM BST / IST (London, Dublin)
🇪🇺 3:00 AM CEST (Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Rome)
🇫🇮 4:00 AM EEST (Helsinki, Athens)
🇹🇷 4:00 AM TRT (Istanbul)
🇮🇱 4:00 AM IDT (Tel Aviv)
🇦🇪 5:00 AM GST (Dubai, Abu Dhabi)
Asia-Pacific (Friday, September 25)
🇮🇳 6:30 AM IST (New Delhi, Mumbai)
🇹🇭 8:00 AM ICT (Bangkok)
🇸🇬 9:00 AM SGT (Singapore)
🇲🇾 9:00 AM MYT (Kuala Lumpur)
🇹🇼 9:00 AM CST (Taipei)
🇨🇳 9:00 AM CST (Shanghai, Beijing)
🇯🇵 10:00 AM JST (Tokyo)
🇰🇷 10:00 AM KST (Seoul)
🇦🇺 11:00 AM AEST (Sydney, Melbourne)
🇳🇿 1:00 PM NZST (Auckland)
https://t.co/smx10Gcl7W
A few Grot Bot @Bot enthusiasts with @Tesla vehicles were invited to a small super secret beta testing group last week. We were asked to keep this under wraps until the service was ready to go live. That time has come!
@Grok in your Tesla vehicle can now communicate to your Grok Bot team. Look to @SpaceXAI for the rollout plan. I know this may initially seem awkward, but wait until you try it. The fun and productivity you will find will amaze you.
If you own a Tesla and haven't set Grok Bot up yet, now might be a good time to get a basic setup started, even if just to explore what it can do for you. We were not paid to do any of this testing or promotion, just enthusiasts enthusiastic about what is possible when you start connecting the dots between difference technologies.
The possibilities are endless.
Das ist neu!
In der Gigafactory Berlin befindet sich der Prototyp eines Optimus Roboters derzeit hinter Milchglas.
Die Werksleitung bestätigt auf Nachfrage:
„Ab Mitte August werden ausgewählte Teams der Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg Teil des globalen Trainings für Optimus sein. […] Das bedeutet, ausgewählte Mitarbeiter werden spezielle Rucksäcke und Helme mit Kameras während ihrer Arbeit tragen, um ihre Bewegungsabläufe als Grundlage für Optimus aufzunehmen."
„Wir sind sehr stolz, Teil dieser Entwicklung sein zu können, und so einen entscheidenden Beitrag für unsere Zukunft zu leisten."
Möglicherweise hängt beides miteinander zusammen. Wer weiß 🤷♂️
Om du kandiderar till riksdagen och öppet proklamerar att syftet med kandidaturen är att öka en annan nations inflytande i Sverige, då ska du ut ur mitt land.
Ta din separatism och åk hem.
Hey remember when you were a kid and your parents told you not to believe everything you see on TV and now you're an adult and your parents believe everything they see on TV?
Nu har vi uppdaterat vår sajt så den konstant visar skillnaden mellan Tidö och opposition.
Följ onsdagsräkningen här: https://t.co/Oz23xpYqid
Skillnad just nu: 32 848
These are *very* exciting times in electric trucking.
Yet most media is silent on this, with nearly no dedicated media sites for e-trucks.
So I built it myself.
Meet eTruckwire, a fully dedicated e-trucking hub with daily news and trackers.
Explore: https://t.co/30aZRBerPU
We already cover plenty of e-truck heavy-duty charging news on EVwire and I see a real gap in the market for a dedicated view.
Now at IAA event in Europe, I got confirmation from talking with many in the space - this is needed.
A one-stop hub for all heavy-duty EV geeks.
Here's what we're starting out with:
- Daily e-truck and heavy-duty charging news coverage with our dedicated no-bs and concise takes.
We skip the big round text and get to the point in the first paragraph.
- Biweekly newsletter rounding up the most important developments. Not as a link-drop type of newsletter, nobody likes those -- a real curated one with context from myself.
- no google ads, ever
- We track the fleet orders of heavy-duty electric trucks, and the news around the deliveries (these two don't always match, do they), in a dedicated page coming soon
- We already track e-truck sales per country, find the resource from the site, and we'll start creating resources for full historical and monthly views on that.
- We'll track the heavy-duty charging rollout, with maps coming soon for both Europe and US,
- We'll track the policies, the partnerships, and the funding news
If you are in the heavy-duty space, I invite you to add me to your e-trucking PR list. Happy to respect all embargoes.
And let me know if you want to collaborate to get in front of all the heavy-duty EV geeks across my channels.
Every heavy-duty EV geek, whether from an OEM, the charging side, or anywhere in the value chain, or an e-curious fleet operator, should consider signing up for the newsletter, right at the subscription box at the site.
If you're among our 14,500 EV geeks in our EVwire newsletter list already (lots of you are), you'll start getting these automatically.
If you can't find the subscribe box or want a shortcut, just DM me your email and I'll get you on board.
PS, I'm still sitting on whether the eTruckwire name suits this.
It makes sense in our larger ecosystem (stay tuned).
But for now, you can access the site for your daily e-truck news at:
https://t.co/OPNvz0sNrv
or
https://t.co/SC2k8s7l2t
(I'm also at the IAA TRANSPORTATION for the last day, find me roaming around between all of the electric trucks!)
Intressant av @TobiasHubinette:
"Eftersom väljarna med utländsk och framför allt utomeuropeisk bakgrund är så oerhört många i årets val och uppgår till en fjärdedel av hela väljarkåren och då 70% av dem röstade på oppositionen igår enligt SVT:s valundersökning så har de antagligen också avgjort valet till oppositionens fördel.
Mycket tyder nämligen på att om enbart de infödda majoritetssvenskarna fick rösta så skulle Tidöpartierna ta hem valet och det gäller även om endast de nordiska och europeiska invandrarna och deras barn och efterkommande hade fått rösta igår.
Sammanfattningsvis går det därför att säga att väljarna med utomeuropeisk bakgrund både förorsakade S’ nedgång och V:s uppgång och oppositionens troliga seger i gårdagens riksdagsval.
Därmed kom Tidöpartiernas och SD:s värsta mardröm att besannas och mot bakgrund av att väljarna med utomeuropeisk bakgrund kommer att utgöra en ännu större andel av väljarkåren i 2030 års val så befarar nu högersidan att de kanske aldrig mer kan vinna ett val igen på grund av den både redan rådande och snabbt tilltagande (super)mångfalden inom den svenska befolkningssammansättningen."
https://t.co/in7bXgcKDk
Classified for 76ton pulling capability (GCW) for EU to pull dual trailers (34,5m) and therefore make it even more efficient doing really long distance freight. The type of freight best for EV.
But if FSD gets solved by Tesla, then it might be easier just to use more units instead.
Ung kvinna i Lund säger att hon röstar rödgrönt för att hon bryr sig om kvinnors rättigheter.
Alltså man tar sig för pannan. Vilket blågult parti vill inskränka kvinnors rättigheter? Det är ju snarare VPK och S som ogillar att kvinnor rör sig fritt i samhället. #burka#slöja
The Swedish election has become more and more openly an election of the original Swedes vs. the "recently added" Swedes.
I haven't observed anything similar in the US or Germany at this level of openness - it seems the cat is now out of the bag that the leftist parties aim to replace the Swedish voters with new ones.
That means that this election is a pivotal historic point:
If the left wins, Sweden could have reached its tipping point and the left will be free to take more openly hostile measures against the native population.
If they lose, the remaining Swedes might have woken up to what is really going on.
Compared to Germany, the fear in Sweden of speaking up seems to be much greater, but the backlash could be accordingly large now that people realize what is happening.
It's a real thriller tonight (unfortunately). Let's hope for the best.
Lycka till!