Roadster In Space

The roadster driven by a mannequin dubbed starman wearing a spacesuit was part of a dummy payload attached to the second stage of a spacex falcon heavy rocket that launched in 2018.

Roadster in space. The official spacex account tweeted. Back in 2018 elon musk launched a car into space aboard spacex s falcon heavy rocket. On february 6 2018 at 2045 utc the first falcon heavy was launched into space.

Now two years later the car makes its first close approach with the red planet starman last seen leaving earth made its first close approach with mars today rdquo. 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. Mercury venus earth mars roadster ceres solar system mercury venus earth mars roadster.

The 2008 model roadster is personally owned by and previously used by musk for commuting to work. It contained a very special payload a tesla roadster with starman. Track elon musk s tesla roadster in space.

Starman a mannequin dressed in a spacesuit occupies the driver s seat. See live orbital position of elon musk s tesla roadster and the starman. The car and rocket are products of tesla and spacex respectively both companies headed by elon musk.

It was a cherry red tesla roadster. This interactive simulation displays tesla s location in space in real time using the latest data from jpl horizon system.