Tesla Car Orbiting The Earth
It will fly near mars again on october 7 next year and come relatively close to earth.
Tesla car orbiting the earth. Starman goes for a ride in elon musk s space tesla. Starman a mannequin dressed in a spacesuit occupies the driver s seat the car and rocket are products of tesla and spacex respectively both companies founded by elon musk. Musk s plan is for the car. Spacex one year ago on feb.
His plan is for the car with the message don t panic on the dashboard and david bowie playing through the. 6 spacex blasted a falcon heavy rocket into space and sent elon musk s personal tesla roadster off on a journey. Behind the wheel of the vehicle elon musk s own car is the mannequin starman wearing a functioning spacex flight suit. This interactive simulation displays tesla s location in space in real time using the latest data from jpl horizon system.
Apparently there is a car in orbit around earth elon musk tweeted this week after spacex s historic falcon heavy rocket launched his original tesla roadster into space. A tesla roadster in orbit. About 207463612 km from earth and roughly 82232541 km from mars. Elon musk s starman can be seen sitting in 100 000 tesla roadster navigating earth.
See live orbital position of elon musk s tesla roadster and the starman. 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. Think of musk s car like a city bus on a scheduled run through the solar system slung this way and that to take advantage of the gravitational pull of the sun to make it easier to get into earth. Elon musk s starman can be seen sitting in 100 000 tesla roadster navigating earth.