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Engine computer software for one of the engines was the problem for the Starship Flight 14.
Heat shield and engines are all looking robust.
They need to get to really high engine reliability.
Flight 15, they are making some improvements to the rocket. They think 4-6 weeks. Flight before thanksgiving (Nov 26).
They will try to catch the booster and the ship on Flight 15.
Flight 16 they will hopefully refly the booster and ship from Flight 15.
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Tesla has a lot of customized equipment. They have Tesla Automation Germany. They needed to make customized equipment.
Elon saw the chip fabs. They are very complicated and impressive but he did not see customized equipment. It was all equipment coming from the same vendors.
They will start with standard equipment and then increase the operational speed of it and then they will make their own equipment.
Elon thinks they will figure out how to be the best at chip manufacturing.
They want to do ten chip designs per year instead of one major design every two years.
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