According to Texas Monthly, Tesla has filed an application to Texas’s Public Utilities Commission to provide electricity this month. Tesla would give electricity to whoever needs it. The application was submitted by Tesla Energy Ventures. Tesla has started a “big battery build-out” near Angleton, Texas. This would give people 100-megawatt storage for Texas’s power grid. Tesla has made other energy storage systems in Los Angeles, two in Australia, and another one being built in Monterey, California. Although these Tesla has not ventured into retail electricity provider, according to CNBC, these batteries have helped energy, storage, and consumption companies. When a…
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Kirsten Markley
Kirsten Markley is an Elon Musk enthusiast. She also plans on being a graphic designer on Mars.
You read that right. Bezos is suing NASA because Blue Origin was not selected to be a partner in their Artemis Program. This is due to claims that NASA misinterpreted their lunar lander proposal. According to The Verge, Blue Origin filed the complaint to the US Court of Federal Claims last Friday. The complaint made was to go after “NASA’s unlawful and improper evaluation of proposals” referencing the moon lander proposals they made along with SpaceX. A spokesperson for Blue Origin expanded on this saying the complaint was, “an attempt to remedy the flaws in the acquisition process found in…
A few days ago, Insider reported that a Canadian startup was collaborating with SpaceX to launch a billboard into space as soon as 2022. The billboard will be launched using one of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets. According to The Byte, Samuel Reid, CEO, and co-founder of Geometric Energy Corporation (GEC), explained that the billboard will be attached to a satellite and have a selfie stick attached so that the billboard can be broadcasted via YouTube or Twitch with the earth as a backdrop. This will allow people and companies to bid on who will get their ads, logos, or art…
Over the weekend, Elon Musk shared some photos of their first Starship prototype at SpaceX’s testing facility. This is after a successful static fire test a couple of weeks ago. These photos give us a first glimpse of the most powerful rocket known to man as well as the future of interplanetary civilizations. <blockquote class=”twitter-tweet” data-theme=”dark”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>Installing Starship booster engines for first orbital flight <a href=”https://t.co/yhqrNFBclh”>pic.twitter.com/yhqrNFBclh</a></p>— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=”https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1422006989576622089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>August 2, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script> One of the photos shows the 230 ft Superheavy booster. Along with Starship, the launch vehicle will be 400 ft tall. A…
On Monday afternoon, SpaceX tested their Super Heavy Booster 3 on a launch pad near Boca Chica, Texas. With this, SpaceX is one step closer to launching the most powerful orbital launch vehicle the world has ever seen. After the test, Elon Musk tweeted that BN3 was tested with three raptor engines. This is not the complete number of raptor engines the orbital flight will have. The booster used for the orbital flight, BN4, will have over 30 raptor engines. According to Nasa Space Flight, Elon Musk noted that they might test BN3 with 9 engines if progress on BN4…
On June 25, Gwynne Shotwell announced that SpaceX is moving to launch Starship for its first orbital flight in July. Despite this, SpaceX has not gotten the regulatory approvals that the launch needs. According to Space News, Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s President, told people attending the National Society’s International Space Development Conference (ISDC) that the launch will reach orbit with their Super Heavy booster and Starship upper stage from Boca Chica, Texas. “We are headed for our first orbital attempt in the not-too-distant future. We’re shooting for July. I am hoping we make it, but we all know this is difficult.…
Elon Musk’s, The Boring Company, have been pitching freight tunnels to potential clients. Bloomberg was able to get their hands on a copy of a pitch and reported the details of the tunnels within it. The freight tunnels will be 21-foot in diameter, which is almost twice the size of the company’s previous tunnels. The pitch also shows three images showing how cargo can be transported. The first being an 8 ft tall container inside the 12-foot tunnel, the next one shows the same container in the 21-foot tunnel, and then one of two containers side by side in the…
The Tesla Model S Plaid is available for purchase and deliveries are underway. On Thursday 10:15 PM PT, Tesla presented the electric car during the Plaid delivery event. This version of the Model S has 1,020 horsepower, a 390-mile range, and can reach 60 mph in less than two seconds. This is after Elon Musk announced last week that Tesla will not offer the Model S Plaid Plus because “Plaid is just so good.” What’s different about the Model S Plaid, according to Yahoo!, is its tri-motor all-wheel drive platform with torque vectoring. This gives the car the ability to…
Tesla cancels Plaid Plus for the Model S one year before being offered. On Sunday, June 6th, Elon Musk announced that Tesla will no longer offer the Model S Plaid Plus, because “Plaid is just so good.” Since 2019, Tesla has been hyping up the Model S Plaid and Elon Musk promised last month that deliveries of the model will happen on June 10th. Model S Plaid delivery pushed to June 10. Needs one more week of tweak. This car feels like a spaceship. Words cannot describe the limbic resonance. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 29, 2021 The difference between…
On Tuesday May 25th, a built-in Tesla camera caught a man shooting out the windows of the car while in an intersection in Norco, CA. The camera was also able to identify the shooters’ car, a red Chevy Trailblazer, before he drove away. Two of the three passengers were uninjured. The camera that captured the attack was able to aide in the man’s arrest. Jesse Leal Rodriguez, 34, was found next to 91 Freeway and Tyler Street driving the SUV that matched the one in the video with a BB gun inside. Rodriguez is now in jail with a $750,000…