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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.
The Roadster is one of two formerly crewed vehicles (albeit not a crewed space vehicle) derelict in solar orbit, joining LM-4 Snoopy, Apollo 10's lunar module ascent stage. [33] [34] Also, included was Arch Mission 1.2, which is a crystal disk containing Isaac Asimov's Foundation series of books, on the Tesla Roadster. [35]
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 ...
Tesla claims the range will be 620 miles – far greater than even the longest-range EVs on sale today – and describes the Roadster as a 2+2, meaning it has a pair of small seats in the rear, as ...
First demonstration flight launched a Tesla Roadster to a trans-Mars injection heliocentric orbit. [108] [109] Both side boosters returned to the launch site and made simultaneous landings; the center core failed to fully relight on landing and crashed into the water adjacent to the droneship, resulting in damage to the vessel's thrusters. [49] 2
In 2006, Tesla announced it would sell the Signature 100 Roadster for $100,000, and by the next year it had pre-sold 570 of them. The cars became available in 2008, the year Musk took over as CEO.
Elon Musk has turned Tesla into a meme stock as he tells Wall Street to value the EV maker like an AI company, top economist says Jason Ma May 4, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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