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LOL this Starship design is not going to work for human flight. It needs an escape capsule. Until it gets one this will be a cargo only rocket.
I might be mistaken but during stage separation the first stage seemed to be exposed to more of the second stage back blast than usual. This...
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The burn rate is over 9000!
Doing complex things with fuel in orbit seems like a bad idea. Inevitibly something is going to go wrong and two large rockets will be destroyed...
Now this is pretty cool. [MEDIA]
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I have seen this before when I was a kid and into RC cars. It is the rear tailgate cover that slopes up to the cab. It is aerodynamic. [IMG] [IMG]
Active cooling seems dangerous if this is going to be human rated. I wonder what type of contingency plan they have to save the humans if the...
I wonder how a pad abort or in flight abort system would work on the BFS. Having such a huge ship with integrated second stage would make it...
The NASA report seems fair and unbiased. They made some very valid points about using out of spec materials for critical rocket components. Do...
So lets think about this. 7500 satellites, 5 to 7 year lifespan, lets say 6 years. This means that SpaceX will need to launch one rocket with...
Here is the best video of the launch. I would even say it was better than the broadcast. Very cool. [MEDIA]
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The fairings are reflecting the sun which makes them bright. The fairings seem like they have thrusters but in actuality they are just caught in...
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At least pick up the dead cat you ran over before you take a picture of your car.
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I am still curious as to what the Part 3 reveal will be. By the time Part 3 comes around everyone will have already seen the new release body...
Drilling a hole can not be done any faster than modern oil drilling rigs. Oil drilling rigs drill much much faster than boring machines however...
I guess Tesla is calling them "Microgrids"? They built a 1.4MW power plant on a Samoan Island. Looks like they use about a 5 to 1 batteries to...
Simpsons did it.
Looks like I was not too far off the mark with my original post. OK they are starting off smaller than I thought but it is only a matter of time...
It seems that my initial post was not too far off the mark. Tesla is doubling the energy density in the powerpack series. Tesla confirms...
I guess we will soon find out.
My bet is that Tesla is teaming up with a major bus manufacturer to build full size electric buses. The "product" announced will be drive train,...
IBM's Watson people mover. I bet the Tesla people mover will be very similar. [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG]
Volkswagens new concept uses augmented reality projected on the windshield instead of an instrument cluster. We know that Tesla has hired heads...
So the Volkswagen ID concept car which is arriving in 2020 will have autonomous driving and a steering wheel that retracts into the dashboard. If...
I am very interested to see how the 100 handles supercharging. Will the changed pack allow the batteries to stay cool longer to supercharge...
An article so poorly researched it is almost funny. Elon Musk Continues To Blow Up Taxpayer Money With Falcon 9
If you slow to 0.25 speed and pause at 1:23 you see the intact second stage fall to the ground and explode. Seems the problem did not originate...
My bet is that the problem stems from the fact that they are using cryogenic oxygen that is colder than other rocket manufacturers are willing to...
Battery degradation seems to be a non issue. Plenty of data from Priuses and Roadsters indicate that batteries last a long time. The issue is...
Once the battery and drivetrain warranty runs out I would think it would be very risky for someone to buy a used Model S. There does not seem to...
Honestly I think you are crazy for accepting it. I would have just said no and asked for a different CPO.
It is going to be interesting to see how Tesla deals with the massive influx of Model 3 which is only just over a year away. Do they plan on...
Sorry but just no. Tesla has said that the blank instrument cluster of the Model 3 is incomplete and will be revealed at a second event. An...
Well if the Model 3 was only being built with affordability in mind there would have been a conventional instrument cluster like the Model S....
I suspect the cooling solution looks a lot like a pocket air mattress. Where the pockets are filled with batteries and the air mattress is filled...
Why do you think that they are using anything other than 18650 batteries in this pack? Where did you hear about them discarding the bond wire...
OK 16.7% change for 11% more battery capacity. I really wonder where the 5.7% more efficiency came from because that is quite huge. That would...
Is anyone else even curious about the 315 mile range of the P100DL??? The previous P90DL was 266 miles wasnt it? That is a 18% gain of range for...
While I doubt it will be as complicated as what OP has shown, I do think the Model 3 steering wheel will fold or move out of the way in some sort....
[MEDIA] OK, in this video of the Gigafactory tour at 30:00 the tour guide tells us that each Powerwall consists of a "pod". Each pod consists of...
It is interesting to hear about how Tesla was started and how close Elon came to losing it all. I wonder now that he is super rich if he is still...
You might be right. I believe Elon did mention something about the small transporter being able to accelerate the same as small vehicles to be...