Roadster In Space

Elon musks 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.

Roadster in space. Spending some time waiting for the boost that will move him to his final orbit. The rocket carried elon musks tesla roadster into space sending it on a billion year elliptic mars orbit get more great car. It contained a very special payload a tesla roadster with starman. On february 6 2018 at 2045 utc spacex performed the maiden test flight of their falcon heavy rocket using elon musks old tesla roadster as a part of dummy payload.

A little more than a year later the roadster is still cruising around our solar. Starman a mannequin dressed in a spacesuit occupies the drivers seat. The purpose of launching a large heavy object on the maiden flight was to demonstrate that the falcon heavy can launch payloads as far as the orbit of mars although traditionally concrete or steel blocks are used for this purpose. Starman is listening to david bowies life on mars but youtube will mute it if i try adding that to this video.

About 241811414 km from earth and roughly 100176547 km from mars. It contained a very special payload a tesla roadster with starman. See live orbital position of elon musks tesla roadster and the starman. The tesla roadster and its mannequin driver that launched into space aboard spacexs first falcon heavy rocket on tuesday feb.

The launch was the first for the worlds most powerful rocket. In february of 2018 elon musk launched his personal tesla roadster into space on spacexs falcon heavy rocket. On february 6 2018 at 2045 utc the first falcon heavy was launched into space.