Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes difficult pursuit of tracking deep-space objects.
Elon Musk and SpaceX reminisced about the first launch of its Falcon Heavy rocket seven years ago on Thursday.
According to SpaceX’s own calculation, the Roadster completed its first orbit around the Sun in August 2019 and made its ...
The newly discovered asteroid, named 2018 CN41, turned out to be a Tesla launched into space by SpaceX in 2018.
Less than 24 hours after the Minor Planet Center announced a new asteroid, it said the object was actually Musk's electric ...
Space law academic states recent misidentification of asteroid—it was a Tesla Roadster heading to Mars!—reminds Earth ...
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When is an asteroid not an asteroid? When it's Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, it turns out.The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla Roadster launched into space years ago by SpaceX ...
The Minor Planet Center seemingly mistook Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster for a small body in space earlier this month, much to ...
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Newly discovered near-Earth asteroid isn't an asteroid at all — it's Elon Musk's trashed TeslaThe Tesla Roadster, which was previously used by Elon Musk ... This means that the car has now exceeded its initial ...
Musk launched his personal Tesla Roadster into space on February 6, 2018, as a test payload for the Falcon Heavy rocket.
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