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About a year ago, @TesLatino had me on his podcast to talk about the Starship return trajectory for a catch at Starbase.
In that interview, I used some animations by @mcrs987 & documents from the FAA EIS to help show what we might expect to see.
With Flight 15 coming up this Friday, I thought it would be a good time to repost this clip of that video to help refresh you on what this rather remarkable flight path and terminal approach is going to be like if Ship 42 is able to complete its initial orbital insertion, ~14 orbits and ~22 hours and then return to Starbase for a catch attempt.
It’s going to be thrilling, a massive (almost shocking) spectacle, and of course, excitement will be guaranteed for sure!
Check this out!
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About a year ago, @TesLatino had me on his podcast to talk about the Starship return trajectory for a catch at Starbase.
In that interview, I used some animations by @mcrs987 & documents from the FAA EIS to help show what we might expect to see.
With Flight 15 coming up this Friday, I thought it would be a good time to repost this clip of that video to help refresh you on what this rather remarkable flight path and terminal approach is going to be like if Ship 42 is able to complete its initial orbital insertion, ~14 orbits and ~22 hours and then return to Starbase for a catch attempt.
It’s going to be thrilling, a massive (almost shocking) spectacle, and of course, excitement will be guaranteed for sure!
Check this out!
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All of the work I have done recreating past flight profiles in 3d culminates into this work, the best prediction I can illustrate ahead of the flight test; including views from several popular viewing locations.
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Volkswagen Financial Services expects over a billion euros in special write-downs on leased cars this year. Highest since at least two decades. Especially used gas and diesel are losing value. Demand exists, but only at a reduced price.
A cheap new Chinese EV now competes on lease rate with a two- or three-year-old Golf. That’s the math threatening VW’s captive finance arm.
– Handelsblatt
Volkswagen Financial Services, one of the group’s key profit engines, is bracing for its worst year in at least two decades. Over one billion euros in special write-downs on leased vehicles, driven by falling residual values across both electric cars and combustion engines. High fuel prices pushed buyers toward EVs, while discounted new-car offers and Chinese competition squeezed used-car prices. In the first nine months, operating profit in Group Mobility fell nearly seven percent to 2.7 billion euros; 709 million euros in write-downs already hit in the first half.
CEO Anthony Bandmann is preparing a restructuring program called Captive of the Future with Roland Berger, targeting cost cuts above 20 percent over five years through consolidation, automation, and possible outsourcing. Job cuts are expected. He is also shifting strategy away from app-based mobility services toward core leasing and financing, extracting more revenue per vehicle through re-leasing, insurance, and service contracts.
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More than a dozen flight tests and years of development, with countless hours worked by SpaceX engineers and technicians, all come down to this: the first orbital Starship launch carrying advanced Starlink satellites bound for space.
Watch “Go For Orbit” and experience the moments behind flying the most ambitious Starship mission yet
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🚨 $NVDA: NVIDIA, STELLANTIS AND WAYVE ARE TEAMING UP TO BRING AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES TO FRANCE, WITH THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT NOW INVOLVED.
NVIDIA just announced another autonomous driving collaboration, this time with Stellantis, Wayve and the French government.
The plan is to develop an autonomous vehicle ecosystem in France, combining Stellantis' vehicle manufacturing capabilities, Wayve's AI driving software and NVIDIA's computing infrastructure.
Wayve's AI Driver will integrate NVIDIA Halos OS on NVIDIA's Hyperion compute and sensor architecture.
So NVIDIA isn't simply supplying GPUs to train autonomous driving models. Its technology is also being integrated into the actual vehicle architecture, including the computing, sensing and safety systems needed for autonomous driving.
Wayve is developing an end to end AI driving system designed to operate across different vehicles without depending on manually programmed driving rules or high definition maps.
Stellantis brings manufacturing scale across brands like Jeep, Fiat, Peugeot and Maserati.
The interesting part is that NVIDIA gets exposure to an autonomous driving ecosystem without needing to manufacture cars or operate robotaxi fleets itself.
Last year, NVIDIA, Stellantis, Foxconn and $UBER announced plans to explore Level 4 robotaxi deployment, with Uber initially targeting 5,000 Stellantis-built autonomous vehicles.
Now we're seeing another initiative in Europe, this time with direct involvement from the French government.
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Starship’s fifth flight test was a seminal moment in iterating towards a fully and rapidly reusable launch system.
Next up: the sixth flight test of Starship is targeted to launch as early as Monday, November 18 → spacex.com/launches/mission/…
Very good summary, why the TAD is and will be always better than MAD, BAD and SAD.
PS: Back in 2024 AI4 was implemented into the Cortex 1 at scale. That was the final drop of trying to explain the Tesla DATA engine in the Group. Now they are Just COOKed.
