Joe Tegtmeyer 🚀 🤠🛸😎
@JoeTegtmeyer • 102,846 subscribers
https://t.co/VR6w0U0PY5 CFI pilot. Drone videos about Giga Texas & Starbase. Interested in all things space related! Mayor of Cyber Beach!
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Starship Flight 14 launch and orbit was a success, but what did the launch sound and feel like form Port Isabel, about 5 miles away? Here is a visual & audio experience almost as good as being there! If you haven't been to a Starship launch, you really need to plan a trip! Ellie in Space 🚀💫 Sound UP!
Joe Tegtmeyer 🚀 🤠🛸😎976,175 görüntüleme • 21 gün önce
Just outside Starbase, a 50-foot bronze Prometheus is going up! Not a SpaceX commission. Not paid for by Elon Musk. French foundry Atelier Missor cast it in sections near Paris, shipped it across the Atlantic, and is assembling it on private land near the entrance for about a million dollars of their own money. In the myth, Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to humanity. Here he holds that torch toward the same sky Starship is built to punch through. The legs are engineered for a Gulf hurricane: stainless tubes, 14 inches across, half-inch walls. Ancient titan. Modern launch site. Same idea … don’t accept the ceiling.
Joe Tegtmeyer 🚀 🤠🛸😎351,986 görüntüleme • 22 gün önce
1 Day left until the Tesla Cybercab Launch Event here in Austin and the Giga Texas test track was busy with more Cybercab night testing with beautiful views of downtown Austin peeking over the horizon supervising the final preparations! I have hear night testing has been on-going for quite some time, particularly in the last week. I hope you enjoy this short video clip of the action on this last day before Cybercab makes its grand debut!
Joe Tegtmeyer 🚀 🤠🛸😎724,177 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
I had the chance to talk to the head of the Reaction Injection Molding (RIM) Tesla team that developed the process, machines, materials and production line responsible for the Cybercab exterior (and some interior) plastic panels. What is RIM? Reaction injection molding (RIM) is a manufacturing process that injects two liquid chemicals into a mold to create strong, lightweight plastic parts. The primary benefits to Tesla? Tesla uses Reaction Injection Molding (RIM) for the Cybercab primarily to eliminate the traditional automotive paint shop, which is historically one of the most expensive, space-consuming, and environmentally taxing parts of car manufacturing. Tesla's goal for mass production is a highly compact, parallel modular assembly system called the "unboxed" process. By skipping the massive infrastructure of a paint shop, Tesla can reduce the factory footprint by roughly 50%. Since the colored panels come out of the molds nearly complete, they don't have to follow a strict sequential painting order and can be easily bolted on toward the end of assembly, minimizing the risk of factory scratches. In the Tesla application for Cybercab, the RIM gold exterior body panels have a underlying reinforced plastic inner support panel that is plastic laser welded (& some industrial adhesives) bonded to the outer panel. When I first saw the early production tests, I noticed there were visible "distortions" where the contact points occurred and this detracted from the overall look of the Cybercab. The team worked very hard to address this issue and made a number of production process modifications that virtually eliminated this issue and I can say the Cybercabs I saw and rode in at the Launch Event looked exceptionally clean. Amazing work by the Plastics team to not only develop this process and the machinery and materials used, but to refine the production process to get such an amazing result! Thanks to Xander Sky for making this video clip!
Joe Tegtmeyer 🚀 🤠🛸😎656,689 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
They say Terafab is going to be built … they are wrong. It is already being built, right now! My first drone flight over the location of what will be the most advanced chip fabrication plant & largest building in the world … and surprise, just like the Giga Texas announcement, construction is already underway! Thank you to Tesla for approving my flight over this facility. Lots yet to come I am sure! Main video coming a bit later!
Joe Tegtmeyer 🚀 🤠🛸😎810,381 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
Excited to share I’ve been accepted as accredited NASA media for MAX POWER ... America’s newest aerospace expo & airshow! With nearly 30 years of aviation and space experience (Air Force Academy to USAF pilot), I’m looking forward to covering this one up close. Nov 7–8 at Kennedy Space Center: Thunderbirds, NASA aircraft, astronauts, tech demos, and a big celebration of American air & space for the nation’s 250th Anniversary! I’ll be on the ground sharing as much as I can & I hope to see a lot of you there too! Thanks to NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman for the vision to bring together such awesome aviation & space capabilities for the public to see ... the future is truly exciting & its happening now! NASA NASAKennedy #MAXPOWER
Joe Tegtmeyer 🚀 🤠🛸😎28,091 görüntüleme • 2 gün önce
The Optimus Factory at Giga Texas like you’ve never seen before! At night and all lit up showing off great views inside the structure that is now ~40% steel assembled! The main steel assembly may be complete by the end of the 1st Qtr in 2027, which would be truly amazing since that would be around 1 year after initial ground breaking began! We can see the ground floor still has a lot of open trenches & part of the deep “plus” foundation footing pit still unfinished, along with some utilities work. The upper 3 floors show much has had concrete poured & even some sections os the roof as well ahead of the weatherproof membrane that will be installed once the roof is ready. Take a look at the factory in a “new light’ today ! 😎🤖
Joe Tegtmeyer 🚀 🤠🛸😎54,080 görüntüleme • 5 gün önce
Giga Texas today is busy with production coming back up following the long weekend. Of interest today in the outbound lot is the appearance of hundreds of Mode; YL’s and many more Cybercabs and for the 1st time equipped with the Starlink module one the hatch in big numbers. At the Cybercab Launch Event last week, I talked to some employees who were very proud of the production ramp of the Model YLs and were looking forward to me flying to show you just how well the ramp is going! With the Cybercabs starting to be produced off the production line with the Starlink addition to the hatch, this may show that this has moved from the conceptual and testing phase to more of a production phase with the appropriate tooling and DIE changes rather than being retrofitted. Check out a Model YLs parked next to Cybercabs for a sense of the scale between the two vehicles!
Joe Tegtmeyer 🚀 🤠🛸😎379,176 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
Giga Texas Optimus factory construction update with 2 short video clips, one 360 at medium-altitude & a closer, lower flight showing tight views of the main steel structure! Ground work started in late March, with 1st steel on May 27. By 1 October, the frame was nearly at the north grade beam, large sections of upper floors were poured, & roofing insulation is arriving. The E side & the entire S half of the foundation have footings & grade beams, but no steel yet. The basic steel structure is ~ 40% assembled so far. This is the dedicated high-volume 7+ million sq ft (~ 650,000 sq m) Gen 4 Optimus plant. Tesla has not given a standalone cost, but 2026 company capex was guided at ~ $20–25 billion for AI, robotics, & factory expansion; outside estimates put the broader N Campus at ~ $5–10 billion. This is in addition to the Fremont California Optimus plant (which is the Gen 3 pilot line) is sized at ~ 1 million units a year, expected to begin production in late 2026. The Giga Texas plant is 10X larger & has a planned capacity of ~10 million robots a year at full scale (a long-term ceiling, not the startup rate). The current target for limited initial production is late 2027. What is still ahead for construction over the next 6 to 8 months? Electrical conduit, water & sewage pipes, fire-water loop, storm water management drainage & underground pipes, exterior walls, roofing, ground slab & upper floor concrete & mechanical rough-in then equipment deliveries & installation. As you can see, lots of progress already, but there is a lot left to do before production line setup can happen.
Joe Tegtmeyer 🚀 🤠🛸😎128,459 görüntüleme • 18 gün önce
Breaking Giga Texas News! starting today, new vehicles (Model Ys & Cybertruck are moving fully autonomously from the factory to the west outbound lot and without human supervisors! I saw this happening constantly, with Model Ys exiting and immediately driving away on their own from the factory. This is a huge accomplishment for Tesla as now Giga Texas joins Fremont as FSD improves overall efficiency!
Joe Tegtmeyer 🚀 🤠🛸😎4,351,116 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce
It’s a good morning for a 360 degree flyover of the Giga Texas Optimus Factory! This higher-altitude flyby helps to show the extent of the construction & the progress that is being made in a rapid time period. If you recall, the foundation was just dirt in early March of this year when major excavation work was just about to begin!
Joe Tegtmeyer 🚀 🤠🛸😎305,357 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
Want to know what it sounded like during the launch of Flight 12 of Starship today? Check out this video and the shaking of the windows. This was during my livestream with Ellie in Space 🚀💫 (Ellie in Space) at a ouse about 5 miles from the launch site. Definitely have the volume up! Truly a powerful rocket ... the most powerful ever!
Joe Tegtmeyer 🚀 🤠🛸😎748,643 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce
Happy 8 April (Wednesday) at Giga Texas, especially for those wanting an update on Cybercabs … I saw about 60 of them in two groups in the outbound lot today … the largest grouping yet! Also, looks like at least some of these have white seats and most still have clearly visible steering wheels … I will let you conclude what you wish from that, but these still do not look like the final “production” versions, so perhaps they are testing out some of the new features while testing some of the Robotaxi areas around the country.
Joe Tegtmeyer 🚀 🤠🛸😎930,541 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce
This is something new, at least at this SCALE, at Giga Texas … hundreds of vehicles, Model Y’s, Cybertruck & Cybercabs being move from the W outbound lot to the E parking garage, filing up inside and on the roof! I even capture a long trail of vehicles in a conga line driving over and into the garage & then emerging on the roof. I know they have stored vehicles to some degree here before, but not at these numbers. What do YOU think is going on?
Joe Tegtmeyer 🚀 🤠🛸😎111,382 görüntüleme • 24 gün önce
It’s Cybercab Bonanza day at Giga Texas! Fresh off the posting yesterday showing Cybercabs autonomously driving out of the production like exit point and taking the ~2 mile trip to the W EOL and Tesla being granted a Level 4 Autonomous @Roxotabw service license in Texas, today we see a lot of Cybercabs on the move, with the hatch open showing the wheel covers prepped for shipping, ~ a dozen lined up at the factory exit point and much more! Check out this Cybercab action today!
Joe Tegtmeyer 🚀 🤠🛸😎578,179 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce
30+ Cybercabs on the move via transport trucks & at the crash testing facility today. I’ve had many viewers ask how these Cybercabs are loaded up on the trucks and today’s your lucky day. I captured this in progress. The Cybercabs being loaded onto the trucks have Steering wheels so this means these are for testing purposes only, likely headed to cities around the country as Tesla prepares for Cybercabs to enter into the Tesla Robotaxi fleet sometime in April. Videos at 1.5X speed
Joe Tegtmeyer 🚀 🤠🛸😎882,696 görüntüleme • 7 ay önce
It's time for the 6-month time-lapse update of construction at the Giga Texas Optimus Factory! This time-lapse shows the site from approximately the same perspective on a weekly basis over the 1st six months. At the current pace, I estimate major building construction to fully assemble the entire super structure will continue well into the spring and possibly summer of 2027. During this time, utilities, concrete flooring, ground slab, roofing, exterior walls & steel assembly will be the primary visible effort. Perhaps the biggest construction project that has not yet begun (but is critical for this factory to be able to function) is the electrical conduits and cables from the electrical switchyard. I have not yet observed this project starting. The distance to the electrical switchyard is almost a mile ( ~ 1.6 Km) so this in itself is a major project that I am watching for to begin. I hope you enjoy this 6-month timelapse of progress.
Joe Tegtmeyer 🚀 🤠🛸😎76,349 görüntüleme • 19 gün önce