Tim Dudek retweeted
Tesla VP of Hardware Engineering Lars Moravy explains to Hagerty how the Roadster borrows SpaceX cold gas thrusters to make 0 to 60 possible in 0.55 seconds.
Truly insane:
▫️ 200L carbon-over wrapped pressure vessel
behind seat holds nitrogen at 10,000 PSI
▫️cold gas thrusters push out 80 kN of thrust (equivalent to a single fighter jet engine)
▫️Tesla went with nitrogen because “it just seemed wrong to put fuel into a car” (air is ~80% nitrogen, fair enough)
▫️thrusters same system satellites use to move in space (eg. the “psh psh psh" from Apollo 13 film)
▫️currently takes 6 to 7 hours to refill all nitrogen but Tesla working for it to be 30 minutes
▫️uses leg actuators from Optimus robot to manage downforce on wing
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Full 25-min episode with Henry Catchpole here: youtu.be/22rvpUecLts?si=jtwK…
Tim Dudek retweeted
These 3.5 seconds did more to fortify American Identity than any establishment politician or political party in the last generation.
100 years of neoliberal rule was vaporized in 3.5 seconds.
Rejoice, we are still America. 🇺🇸
Tim Dudek retweeted
This is BULLISH for Tesla. Basically, the NHTSA is saying as long as the self-driving system is proving its safety, it doesn’t matter whether the car uses LiDAR, cameras, etc.
This framework is literally built for Tesla. It will allow Cybercab to scale throughout the U.S. instead of fighting state-by-state to scale.
NHTSA announced today that they are developing a new federal safety standard specifically for autonomous driving system performance to prepare for larger-scale Robotaxi deployments in the U.S.
Instead of regulations saying a car must have this particular physical control or design, NHTSA says it wants more regulations focused on whether the autonomous vehicle can actually perform safely. Morrison (the head of NHTSA) specifically says the standards should include measurable driving competencies and repeatable ways of testing them.
NHTSA also announced that it:
• Is launching the ASCEND consortium with SAE to accelerate development of AV performance standards
• Is developing a national AV “competency standard”
• Is updating federal safety rules to accommodate vehicles designed without human drivers or traditional controls
• Has proposed changes to five major federal vehicle safety standards, with “many more coming”
• Is developing new AV guidance aimed at helping the industry transition from testing to “mid-scale driverless deployments”
• Is working on standards covering emergency responders, remote assistance and safety management systems
• Plans to prioritize safety performance over specific vehicle designs
• Will continue investigations, enforcement and recalls when AVs pose unreasonable safety risks
NHTSA says the goal is to create a national framework for determining whether an autonomous vehicle is a safe driver.
Great to finally see the government taking autonomous vehicles seriously and trying to make changes to old laws that were intended for manual driven vehicles.
I just made my #PassItBackDay gift to The Association of Former Students! tx.ag/pibd25 via @AggieNetwork
With there being no steering wheel or pedals in the cybercab, we can no longer refer to the drivers side or passengers side. So are we going back to port and starboard!? – at Enterprise, NV
Tim Dudek retweeted
Aaron Ford authored the bill to give tax breaks for data centers, which included ZERO guardrails on their energy or water use.
Now, Ford wants to rewrite history and lie to Nevadans. Unfortunately for him, the record is clear: archive.leg.state.nv.us/Sess…
Tim Dudek retweeted
If you’re an A&M graduate who roots for Texas over Ohio State on Sept. 12 in the name of SEC pride, the address to mail in your Aggie Ring is pasted below.
The Association of Former Students
Attn: Aggie Ring Program
505 George Bush Drive
College Station, TX 77840
I make a lot of jokes, but I’m dead serious about this, Big 12 fans.
If you’re a BYU fan, you should be cheering for Utah against Arkansas. If you’re an Arizona fan, you should be cheering for Arizona State at Texas A&M. If you’re a TCU fan, you should be cheering for Baylor against Auburn.
Hate your rivals during conference play. But when they’re playing the SEC, their wins help the perception of the entire conference. If the Big 12 wants more respect nationally, it needs those non-conference wins.
Tim Dudek retweeted
I fucking LOVE this angle of Booster 12's catch.
Like you can see how fucking crazy this was and on the first attempt too 😭😭
Tim Dudek retweeted
Emails show leading officials at NIH, including Fauci, knew the best data indicated no benefit from masks.
Why did they proclaim great benefits of masks then?
Because these officials were not managing a virus using science.
They were managing a population using psychology.
Tim Dudek retweeted
Aaron Ford claims his office has recovered over $40 million in Medicaid fraud, but the NV Health Authority can only verify less than $2 million! Where did that money go?
Nevadans deserve a new direction in the Attorney General's office. I'm running to put transparency first.
Tim Dudek retweeted
There has been a lot of hand wringing on the appropriate valuation of SpaceX. Some large institutions believe SpaceX can only be valued at half what the market seems to be willing to pay for it. Others are claiming it has 15X appreciation ahead of it.
Almost all of this difference of opinion comes down to how comfortable you are modeling beyond 2030 and what valuation method you use.
2030 valuation using a traditional Gordan DCF produces a very different result than a 2040 EV/EBITDA Multiple. Both have pros and cons. Most analysts don’t really discuss this and lead with a headline number.
We are very comfortable modeling out to 2040, as large portions of what SpaceX is proposing is real world infrastructure, which provides modelable physics constraints to anchor against.
The analysis we released today explores this in-depth, its open to the public all the way through IPO. I highly encourage you check it out prior to then.
research.33fg.com/analysis/s…
We’ve run 5,000 monte carlo runs across 500 variables (real number, even though it sounds fake) and three valuation methods.
This video is of a 3D cloud chart showing every simulation outcome expected in valuation output across two of the most impactful variables to the model when using an EV/EBITDA multiple from 2026 to 2040.
The horizontal axis is the steepness of the orbital data center demand S-curve.
The vertical axis is the rate at which chip compute efficiency becomes cheaper.
Each of the 5,000 dots is one simulated future; green dots are the ones where SpaceX's 2040 value clears the $1.77T IPO line, over time.
Under EV/EBITDA valuation through 2040, 96% of our simulated futures clear the expected IPO price once the bell rings Friday.
We aren’t publishing this publicly to tell investors what the stock is worth, we’re publishing this to help investors understand the world of outcomes, what the fundamentals suggest through 2040, and what frankly most analysis simply won’t share.
SpaceX is a generational company working on long term infrastructure harnessing a domain no one has been able to tap in so far: space.
It deserves doing the work as an investor. because this in not financial advice.
The cleanest way to hold SpaceX is a bond stapled to a call option (AI-Compute); Starlink is the bond, the near term SatCom annuity that funds the next flywheel.
Understand the world of outcomes and take your position accordingly.
Comparables and P/E won't take you far enough.
Tim Dudek retweeted
Mach33 has published its new @SpaceX valuation model.
Mach33 believes the current ~$1.77T equity valuation does not fully reflect the long-term upside from Starship, orbital compute infrastructure, and future SpaceX growth initiatives.
"The globe below shows their base case for what SpaceX places on orbit through 2040. In 2028 the model puts ~40,000 tonnes of Starlink mass on orbit as the first orbital data center satellites may appear. Through the late 2020s almost all the new mass is still broadband, and the compute halo only scales once Starship cadence is redirected after 2030. By 2040 that halo reaches roughly 370,000 tonnes on orbit, Starlink mass on orbit peaks near 860,000 tonnes around 2038, and the Moon and Mars program lands around 34,000 tonnes of payload on the surface. The revenue view tells the same story in dollars: Starlink scales first to roughly $300 billion a year by the early 2030s and funds the company, while orbital-compute revenue overtakes it around 2036 and climbs toward $1 trillion a year by 2040. That ordering sets up the rest of this report: Starlink hardware goes up first and funds the company through 2030, compute hardware goes up later and carries the value."
You can read the full thing here: research.33fg.com/analysis/s…
There has been a lot of hand wringing on the appropriate valuation of SpaceX. Some large institutions believe SpaceX can only be valued at half what the market seems to be willing to pay for it. Others are claiming it has 15X appreciation ahead of it.
Almost all of this difference of opinion comes down to how comfortable you are modeling beyond 2030 and what valuation method you use.
2030 valuation using a traditional Gordan DCF produces a very different result than a 2040 EV/EBITDA Multiple. Both have pros and cons. Most analysts don’t really discuss this and lead with a headline number.
We are very comfortable modeling out to 2040, as large portions of what SpaceX is proposing is real world infrastructure, which provides modelable physics constraints to anchor against.
The analysis we released today explores this in-depth, its open to the public all the way through IPO. I highly encourage you check it out prior to then.
research.33fg.com/analysis/s…
We’ve run 5,000 monte carlo runs across 500 variables (real number, even though it sounds fake) and three valuation methods.
This video is of a 3D cloud chart showing every simulation outcome expected in valuation output across two of the most impactful variables to the model when using an EV/EBITDA multiple from 2026 to 2040.
The horizontal axis is the steepness of the orbital data center demand S-curve.
The vertical axis is the rate at which chip compute efficiency becomes cheaper.
Each of the 5,000 dots is one simulated future; green dots are the ones where SpaceX's 2040 value clears the $1.77T IPO line, over time.
Under EV/EBITDA valuation through 2040, 96% of our simulated futures clear the expected IPO price once the bell rings Friday.
We aren’t publishing this publicly to tell investors what the stock is worth, we’re publishing this to help investors understand the world of outcomes, what the fundamentals suggest through 2040, and what frankly most analysis simply won’t share.
SpaceX is a generational company working on long term infrastructure harnessing a domain no one has been able to tap in so far: space.
It deserves doing the work as an investor. because this in not financial advice.
The cleanest way to hold SpaceX is a bond stapled to a call option (AI-Compute); Starlink is the bond, the near term SatCom annuity that funds the next flywheel.
Understand the world of outcomes and take your position accordingly.
Comparables and P/E won't take you far enough.
Tim Dudek retweeted
these specs fall right in between our modeled specs for our V1 and V2 orbital compute sats. Elon says this is the A1 spec (will improve over time), and if they hit these specs it will be about ~40% better than we estimated. for the first wave of orbital data centers.
importantly, these specs imply that they were able to get better power density improvements simply from architecture changes. This opens up the possibility to use 'off the shelf' compute, with much less reliance on custom chip builds for power density or high temperatures.
Probably one big reason why Elon feels bullish on timelines. (assuming)
One helpful way to think about this is how many MWs of compute per launch. Our estimate was ~5MW/starship launch. These specs would line up close to ~7MW/starship launch. ~120 launches get you 1GW of compute.
the single most interesting thing (to me) here is what appears to be a hot-swappable compute payload. If true, that would address any maintenance concerns and make compute upgradable bringing down the cost to just the compute replacement cost in the limit.
SpaceX has just officially unveiled its AI1 satellite, the first generation of its AI satellite.
Overall Specs:
• 150 kW peak compute payload
• 120 kW average compute payload
• 70 kW per ton
• Compute provider interchangeable
Dimensions:
• Wingspan: 70 meters
• Deployed height: 20 meters
Thermal System:
• 110 m² deployable liquid radiator
• Redundant pumping loops
• Integrated micrometeoroid shielding
• Deployable liquid radiators
Solar Power System:
• 150 kW solar array
• 250 W/m²
• SpaceX-manufactured solar technology from Bastrop, Texas
Architecture:
• Centralized compute module
• Large deployable solar arrays
• Deployable liquid-radiator thermal management system
• AI-focused compute satellite design ("AI1 satellite")
Elon: "The AI satellite is much simpler than a Starlink satellite. The AI satellite is essentially a lot of solar cells, you still need some laser links, but you don't have all of the super complex antennas that you have on a Starlink satellite. The easier one to design for is the AI satellite. It's bigger. A lot of this is technology we've already made with the Starlink V3 satellites."
Tim Dudek retweeted
The US reportedly attempted to retrofit a UFO's power source into one of our own craft.
Full episode with Jeremy Corbell 2EST.
🚨 STARSHIP V3 UPGRADES
SpaceX just unveiled Starship Version 3
Every major system redesigned:
> payload tripled to 100 metric tons
> all 33 Raptors now fire simultaneously
> 3 grid fins instead of 4, 50% bigger
> hot-stage adapter now fully reusable
> engine shielding deleted
> fuel transfer tube the size of a Falcon 9 first stage
> 60 Starlink V3 sats per launch
> new docking ports for in-orbit refueling
The redesigned internal fuel transfer tube is so massive, it's literally the size of a Falcon 9 first stage.
"We kind of put a rocket inside of a rocket"




























