Car Sent To Space

The electric car a red convertible roadster is slated to be deployed six hours after liftoff.

Car sent to space. If all goes well it and a dummy driver named starman will be sent into orbit around the sun. The car and rocket are products of tesla and spacex respectively both companies headed by elon musk. The roadster is still cruising around our solar system on an elliptical path around.

The sports car in the nosecone was one of mr musk s own tesla roadsters. The falcon heavy propelled the tesla into space with the intention of sending as far as mars s orbit but the car overshot its target heading towards the asteroid belt. But perhaps the most dramatic scene occurred about four minutes after liftoff.

The tesla roadster that rode spacex s falcon heavy rocket into space tuesday afternoon seems poised to overshoot its mark with company ceo elon musk tweeting a diagram showing that the car s. Cameras mounted on the car live streamed the starman s journey for a few. It is the first production car launched into space and first to orbit the sun.

Its stereo was programmed to play david bowie s space oddity on repeat as it travels for millions of years through space. The second stage of the rocket headed deeper into space discarded the white nose cone at its tip. In february of 2018 elon musk launched his 100 000 tesla roadster into space on the spacex falcon heavy rocket.

Last week spacex ceo elon musk launched his now famous red tesla roadster into space atop the first falcon heavy rocket.