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Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster is an electric sports car that served as the dummy payload for the February 2018 Falcon Heavy test flight and became an artificial satellite of the Sun. A mannequin in a spacesuit , dubbed "Starman", occupies the driver's seat.
SpaceX launched the Tesla Roadster on the maiden flight of SpaceX's huge Falcon Heavy rocket in February 2018. Read On The Fox News App. The roadster was expected to go into elliptical orbit ...
The 2008 Tesla Roadster hitched a ride Feb. 6, 2018 on a Falcon Heavy launching from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on the historic launch pad 39A – the site of the space agency's Apollo moon ...
It'll take approximately 557 days for the Roadster to make a full orbit around the Sun, and it's projected to continue to travel through space for a long, long time to come.As LiveScience notes ...
The Roadster remains attached to the second stage. [30] This launcher demonstration made the Roadster the first consumer car sent into space. [31] Three Lunar Roving Vehicles were sent to space on the Apollo 15, 16, and 17 missions in the 1970s, and these vehicles were left on the Moon. [32]
It's the first consumer vehicle sent into space, and it will absolutely be a fascinating point of trivia in many circles for years to come. The articles for the Falcon Heavy flight and the Roadster itself should be kept separate. – PhilipTerryGraham 05:25, 9 February 2018 (UTC) Oppose Coverage like
As Tesla stock soared in after-hours trading following its earnings surprise, CEO Elon Musk joined a call with analysts to take rapid-fire questions about the electric vehicle maker’s finances ...
A 2009 lawsuit settlement with Eberhard designated Musk as a Tesla co-founder, along with Tarpenning and two others. [118] [119] Tesla began delivery of the Roadster, an electric sports car, in 2008. With sales of about 2,500 vehicles, it was the first mass production all-electric car to use lithium-ion battery cells. [120]