live stream from Tesla car in space

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Elon Musks company, space X, had a HUGE launch today and he actually did something he had jokingly threatened to do, he sent his actual car in to space as the payload with a mannequin as the driver and rigged with cameras and lights, set in to an orbit. live view here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M
Enjoy!
 
The re-entry/landing of two of the three boosters was almost more exciting than the lift off for me!!
 
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That was the coolest launch in a long time, with the rockets landing, the sports car headed to Mars with the top down jamming David Bowie
 
How far would YOU go to detect ? :laughing::laughing::laughing:
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Its currently in orbit around the earth, so unless it is strapped to a motor module its not going anywhere but back into our atmosphere eventually.

I'm not sure yet about the "how" details but this article says it will orbit Mars -

Elon Musk sends Tesla car to Mars on SpaceX rocket

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/06/tech-giant-elon-musk-send-car-mars-aboard-worlds-powerful-rocket/

.......quote from the above link -

Mr Musk used a super rocket – the Falcon Heavy vehicle – to send the car into orbit around Mars, deploying technology with twice the launching power of any existing rocket, and double that of the Saturn V, which launched the Apollo lunar missions.
(end of quote)

....hey, it would really be neat if they could land it on Mars and drive it around there :lol:
 
After Mars it's on to Jupiter. The orbit path will keep it on a normal path for hundreds if not thousands of years. Eventually Jupiter and the asteroid belt will shift the orbit enough to send it either into the sun or smacked by something near the asteroid belt which will change the orbit even more (if it survives).

Either way, the odometer reading is going to be ridiculous.:laughing:
 
It never happened! There is no car in space! There was no launch! It is just an elaborate car commercial for Tesla!!! It was filmed in Scandinavia where it is ALWAYS dark all day long! What a clever marketer Elon Musk is.
 
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