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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]
Astronomers mistook a Tesla Roadster that was launched into orbit in 2018 for an asteroid earlier this month. The registry of what was thought to be an asteroid was soon deleted.
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 ...
Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital. [2] [3] He is of British and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry.[4] [5] His mother, Maye (née Haldeman), is a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada, and raised in South Africa.
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 ...
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.