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Rob the reason for that is that this thread is in the Canadian forum and unfortunately in that country EV charging is based on time and not kWh delivered. Yes, it’s weird, and there are signs that it could change in the future but for now that’s the way it is. So when charging in Canada the EV...

For Sale posts are not allowed in the regional forums. Post your items in the Tesla Parts for Sale forum on TMC and then link to it in the pinned thread that is at the top of the thread list in this forum.

See Free Model X factory floor mats, unused, pick up in Vancouver area

Latest NSF video shows some B7 pressure testing and another igniter test (without actual ignition). Yesterday S24 was lifted onto the suborbital pad B stand. I cannot even imagine what it would be like to be one of the guys shown in these photos, perched at the edge of the stand with that...

It was shown. Looked like a normal stack of Starlinks. And just before separation.

Thanks for reminding me, I made an incorrect assumption for the ASDS. Hmm…interesting speculation. :oops:

I had the same impression. She seemed less engaged and animated than usual. I met her once at a Vandenburg launch years ago; really nice, high energy. But of course we all have our ups and downs. And I cannot recall another SpaceX launch livestream where the webcast host was not shown.

Well that was a nail biter. It took over a minute for SpaceX to confirm the booster landing. Video from the booster and ASOG cut out several seconds before touchdown and did not come back. And the livestream ended before deployment, which seems odd to me; it was only a few minutes away.

CNN: NASA makes contact with satellite that broke free of Earth's orbit

I have owned my X since it was new and have always had passive entry turned on.

Here are some better images from the latest video from Bocachicagal. The ship has been positioned next to suborbital launch pad B and is now connected to a crane for the lift onto the stand.

There are rows of TPS tiles missing from the seams where the main sections of the vehicle are welded together. I assume that is so that the seams can be inspected after pressurization cycles during testing and static fires, and then tiles will be added before launch. I also assume the lifting...

S24 has arrived at the launch site! Looks like it is getting ready for engine testing. And the vehicle is looking less like a prototype (which of course it still is) and more like a finished product. And are those Starlink antennas just below the SpaceX logo?

Thanks for starting this thread. Could you please explain the installation process? I’m not clear on where that Tesla part goes. Photos would be great!

I can recommend Street Legal Tint & Detailing in North Vancouver. Reasonable prices, good work.

I find that hard to believe. It’s going to be challenging to sell a $100K car without letting prospective buyers take a test drive.

I’m unclear; isn’t there an independent comms link to the Lunar Photon kick stage so it is still controllable? So why does Beck say “It’s really down to comms,”? Very bad news for CAPSTONE If they can’t restore comms over the DNS.

The same cosmonauts who arrived at the ISS in March wearing yellow and blue suits are now displaying a flag representing a region in Ukraine captured by Russia after its invasion. See...

Thanks for your post. I feel better also! 😁

Here is some of the speculation about those structures, posted at https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=54775.1720 With the caveat that I am most definitely not a rocket scientist, the location of those structures seems an odd place to put some kind of “thruster” as the exhaust...

As Supercharger users know, usage is highly variable; a site with a small number of stalls can be empty one minute and full the next minute. When that taxi is parked and not charging and then multiple cars show up wanting to charge, people get upset. And rightly so. Occupying a stall when not...

That is completely unacceptable behavior for any Tesla owner. If I saw that happening I would call the company and rip them a new one…

By “landing burn” do you mean like an F9 booster where it is essentially vertical and over the target area and then the engines ignite just to null out the velocity? I give a near zero probability of that happening on the upcoming Starship mission. While I firmly believe that by the end of this...

Pretty sure the new ”Starlink RV” service is available anywhere Starlink is normally available.

Okay, with the understanding that you are just tossing out a WAG ;) I don’t understand how a pair of “smaller engines” could be part of the startup/restart process. I noted that when I enlarged that photo, what looks like two small circles are not in fact circular; they are shaped irregularly...

There is a reddit discussion at r/spacex of these photos and some have commented that the “dance floor” is missing at the base of Starship, revealing the structure of girders visible in the photo above. I guess they are referring to a partition that hides those girders and what is above them.

New photos from SpaceX! Mind blowing. Interesting to see the different static fire wear patterns in the booster Raptor nozzles. And what are those two smaller circular structures between the center three engines and the ring of 10?

Just below is a shot of the Starlink dispenser mechanism being installed into S25, the next Starship that is being completed. Do we know if a similar mechanism is installed in S24? Below that image are two shots of the Starlink “loader” box that was recently raised up next to S24 for some sort...

You make good points. I do not know enough about orbital mechanics to make determinative statements, I can only speculate that for Starship to make a flight from Texas to near Hawaii it has to achieve orbital velocity and could therefore reach something around the 236km altitude at which SpaceX...

If I recall correctly, the plan for the first Starship orbital flight — launching to the east, of course —- is to achieve orbital velocity and then de orbit over the western Pacific and land just northeast of the Hawaiian Islands. I suspect there would be enough time during that flight more than...

Yesterday SpaceX opened the cargo door (really more of a “slot”) on S24, hoisted up the “Starlink loader” container, and positioned it next to the door. It is generally assumed that container will be packed with V2 Starlinks and when positioned like that they will be inserted one by one into the...

BTW, she is an astrogeophysicist at NASA with a Ph.D. in Planetary Science from the University of Colorado.

As it happens I watched that earlier today. :) It was pretty good but nothing new to SpaceX fans. Still, I’m glad to see that a scientist and non-SpaceX employee is publicizing what Starship is aiming for.

I have not heard of anyone experiencing that high a frequency of false braking while on Auto Steer; false braking events occurring just seconds to a few minutes apart. Does that happen to you over an extended period of time; extremely frequent false braking events? I have them occur roughly...

Thanks for that correction. Tesla often provides L2 (J1172) chargers along with a Tesla HPC so I thought that might have been the case here. We agree that Tesla provides their Destination Chargers (HPCs) free to businesses. Once installed by the businesses I doubt that Tesla takes the time to...

Something I noticed about the webcast of this launch; from about T+00:30 to 02:25, during ascent and Max Q, they continuously showed the camera view looking down the booster. I don’t recall a previous launch where we saw that view during Max Q. Maybe that is now possible because they are using...

You could use the TMC search function to try to find another discussion of this issue. Tesla does not own Destination Chargers installed by businesses so cannot influence how they are used. Sun Country is a manufacturer of EV chargers and does not own and operate a charging network. I suspect...

For sure. Really love the views we are now getting all the way through the booster landing sequence. Just one brief video dropout from the booster shortly after the entry burn. It’s not just better cameras; I believe they are using Starlink to transmit the video and that means the view from ASOG...

Yes. My service request was entirely about my window issue. That is what this this thread is about. I don’t have any other issues with my X.

The issue I described is not related to the limit you discussed when doing back in parking. I’m talking about trying to get Auto Park to activate when very slowly driving by a parallel parking space that is clearly long enough for the car to readily fit into (and clearly wide enough because...

If you are referring to the photo that @Grendal posted above, the second stage engine is not visible.

I did not realize SpaceX had that much F9 booster storage space!

Heard back from Tesla, they confirm my car has the most current software version for its configuration and they won’t be coming out to look at it. They did not comment on my window issue. My car has the MCU2 upgrade, by the way. So I guess I will just live with the window issue.

I entered a service request through the app and it shows that a mobile tech will come tomorrow morning.

The Auto Park function for parallel parking is good when it can identify a space. The problem is that it is not able to consistently detect the space you wish to park in. You can slowly drive by a parking space that you think looks suitable but the car does not identify it.

Here is what my X shows for software status.

Thanks for your reply. I’m also puzzled as to why my X has not had an update in a long time. Both my Teslas are on wifi in my garage. I can confirm that because I can see them in the app when I’m in my condo, and my garage is 7 floors below me. My Model 3 gets software updates frequently but I...

On the return trip from Revelstoke to Vancouver averaged 305Wh/km (488Wh/mi). Lots of downhill stretches. Very pleased with Starlink RV performance during my trip. Only a few instances of momentary video pauses during an extended FaceTime call. Revelstoke campsite had quite a few trees around...

The issue you describe was happening even before that time.

A month or two ago I noticed that, when my 2017 X was not being driven, unless I was sitting in the drivers seat and had pressed the brake pedal the window controls did not work. In other words, if I walked up to the car with my fob on me, opened the door and tried to raise/lower a window the...