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 is now an artificial satellite of the Sun . "Starman", a mannequin dressed in a spacesuit , occupies the driver's seat. The car and rocket are products of Tesla and SpaceX , both companies founded by Elon Musk . [4] The 2008-model Roadster was previously used by Musk for commuting to work, and is now the first production car in space.
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2018 |
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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 is now an artificial satellite of the Sun . "Starman", a mannequin dressed in a spacesuit , occupies the driver's seat. The car and rocket are products of Tesla and SpaceX , both companies founded by Elon Musk . [4] The 2008-model Roadster was previously used by Musk for commuting to work, and is now the first production car in space. |
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2017 |
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Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster is a private automobile that has been adapted to fit as a dummy payload for the maiden flight of the Falcon Heavy rocket. The vehicle is a first-generation Roadster produced in 2009 by Tesla Motors , an American electric car manufacturer founded by Elon Musk . On December 1, 2017, Musk announced on Twitter that SpaceX , his private aerospace company, would launch the automobile on the first flight of the company's new heavy-lift rocket in January 2018. Three weeks later, he followed up by posting photographs of the Roadster mounted to the rocket's payload adapter before encapsulation in the fairing. |