As strange as that sounds, the car was launched in February 2018 and attached to the Falcon Heavy upper-stage booster.
In fact, it isn't even a natural object. The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla Roadster launched into space years ago by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. The company sent ...
Astronomers have retracted the discovery of a new asteroid after realizing the object was the remains of Elon Musk's Tesla ...
The newly discovered asteroid, named 2018 CN41, turned out to be a Tesla launched into space by SpaceX in 2018.
It has been a little over seven years since SpaceX first test-launched its powerful Falcon Heavy rocket. The February 2018 ...
SpaceX launched the Tesla Roadster on the maiden flight of ... but it apparently exceeded the orbit of Mars and kept going to the asteroid belt, according to Musk at the time.
“If we’re confused about whether something is an unknown asteroid or a Tesla Roadster, then it starts to cost us money to do things like tracking it or figuring it out.” That’s why better ...
YR4 has a very small chance of striking Earth when its orbit briefly intersects our planet's in December 2032.
It's not an asteroid. It's a Tesla Roadster launched in 2018 from the Falcon Heavy rocket with a ... [+] dummy driver named "Starman." Less than a day after astronomers announced the discovery of ...
In fact, it isn't even a natural object. The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla Roadster launched into space years ago by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. The company ...
The discovery of a new asteroid this month has turned out to be anything but. In fact, it isn't even a natural object. "The Tesla case is not an isolated case," astronomer Jonathan McDowell of the ...