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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.
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 ...
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One year ago today (Feb. 6), a spacesuit-clad mannequin named Starman blasted into orbit aboard a cherry-red Tesla roadster he borrowed from his buddy, Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk.The ...
The Tesla Roadster is a battery electric sports car, based on the Lotus Elise chassis, produced by Tesla Motors (now Tesla, Inc.) from 2008 to 2012.The Roadster was the first highway legal, serial production, all-electric car to use lithium-ion battery cells, and the first production all-electric car to travel more than 244 miles (393 km) per charge. [7]
Tesla Roadster: Heliocentric orbit: Success: Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, dummy payload for the February 2018 Falcon Heavy test flight and is now an artificial satellite of the Sun China: Queqiao: Moon: Success: First relay satellite for far side of the Moon. US France Germany: InSight: Mars: Success: InSight, Mars lander for planetary information
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.
The Roadster is the successor to Tesla's first production car, the 2008 Roadster. Originally set to ship in 2020, the release has been delayed multiple times. In early 2024, Tesla CEO Elon Musk expected that the Roadster should unveil at the end of 2024, and they were aiming to ship in 2025, [ 5 ] but in October 2024, Musk confirmed that the ...