Tesla Roadster in the cargo compartment FH (photos SpaceX)
Musk showed a farewell photo of Tesla car flying in space
Uncategorized February 8, 2018The head of the private space company SpaceX, launched for the first time on the night of February 7, super-heavy rocket, the Falcon Heavy electric vehicles as payload, was posted in social networks the last shot of this car. Tesla Roadster with a dummy in his suit, judging by the photos, is already at a considerable distance from Land.
“Last picture with the “Star man” in the Roadster, which on the way to the orbit of Mars and then the asteroid belt,” wrote Elon Musk.
If the flight trajectory of the object does not change, the following approach to the Earth of the car will happen around 2030.
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The asteroid belt – the Solar system between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the site of accumulation of a set of objects of various sizes, mostly of irregular shape (small planets, asteroids and fragments) whose total mass is approximately equal to 4% of the mass of the moon.
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Previous photo from space (also clickable):
6 February 2018 when the first launch of super-heavy carrier rocket Falcon Heavy on transparency orbit was launched the car of the head of Space X Elon musk Tesla Roadster, at the wheel which sits a mannequin in a spacesuit.
The side boosters of the rocket simultaneously sat on the platform on land. Fit the third of the accelerator (the Central) on a platform in the Atlantic ocean was unsuccessful – tier crashed.