14+ Tesla Car Orbiting Earth Background. Starman and his tesla leave earth behind shortly after launching atop spacex's falcon heavy rocket on feb. Incredible video of tesla car in orbit around earth.

NASA is keeping tabs on Elon Musk's Tesla roadster
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As all the uncertainty suggests, the orbits of small objects like electric cars are tough to project so far into the future. Spacex ceo elon musk's tesla roadster made its first close approach to mars on wednesday. In this handout photo provided by spacex in february 2018, a tesla roadster launched from the falcon heavy rocket with a dummy driver named starman heads toward mars.

The eccentric billionaire donated his own red tesla roadster as payload for the unmanned falcon heavy, which took off from nasa's kennedy space center in florida — while the car's stereo view from spacex launch control, musk wrote on twitter.

The car, a 2008 tesla roadster, hitched a ride to space on what is now the most powerful rocket in operation, the falcon heavy, built by elon musk's the goal of the falcon heavy's first flight—aside from not blowing up—was to put the tesla into an elliptical orbit between earth and mars, a car and. Spacex ceo elon musk's tesla roadster made its first close approach to mars on wednesday. A telescope about 8,264 ft. In this handout photo provided by spacex in february 2018, a tesla roadster launched from the falcon heavy rocket with a dummy driver named starman heads toward mars.