On 6 February 2018, history was made. An ambitious company led by a millionaire finally launched the most powerful operational rocket — The falcon heavy.
This was a demonstration that — a private company CAN launch a rocket as powerful as the falcon heavy,
Falcon Heavy is the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of two. With the ability to lift into orbit nearly 64 metric tons (141,000 lb) Falcon Heavy can lift more than twice the payload of the next closest operational vehicle, the Delta IV Heavy.
It is incredibly powerful. Falcon Heavy is composed of three Falcon 9 nine-engine cores generating more than 5 million pounds of thrust at liftoff, equal to approximately eighteen 747 aircraft.
And what do you do with a powerful rocket? Ah, you launch your favourite car in space along with a dummy human, sitting comfortably with his one hand on the rims of the delicate, cherry red Tesla roadster, patiently listening to Life on Mars by Davie Bowie, for two years now.
SpaceX made a fairly simple demonstration mission into something very exciting by adding a little spice to it Yup. There is a literal car in space right now, breezing along the interplanetary roads(because it is a car, you know), doing its thing.
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 became 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, respectively, both companies headed by Elon Musk. Doesn’t it just blow your mind? I mean, which company will launch a literal CAR ?????!!!!
OK, back to the topic.
“Starman, last seen leaving Earth, made its first close approach with Mars today — within 0.05 astronomical units, or under 5 million miles, of the Red Planet,” SpaceX announced via Twitter Wednesday (Oct. 7).
SpaceX even documented it in full grace-As shown in this video.
Starman and his space Tesla have sent their last selfie from Earth orbit, Elon Musk announced. Elon Musk posted the “last pic” of Starman and on Instagram, though it’s such a nice frame that one suspects it’s probably the best of its last final minutes. …
However, This was not a particularly close pass; it will be about 4.6 million miles (7.4 million km) away from Mars. … A much closer pass will happen at Mars on April 22, 2035.
You can know about Starman’s location on THIS WEBSITE.
The mission, however, was anything but frivolous. Musk’s goal for Starman was to demonstrate capabilities of the Falcon Heavy rocket on its maiden launch and to prove the Hawthorne-based company could propel something into space capable of reaching Mars.
This hints us that we might at some time in the near future do not need a rocket to complete a whole journey to another planet. Cars can be modified into spaceships. The rocket will just leave the car outside earth’s gravitational force and from there with you and your driving skills, can carry any no of people. it can be so easy, it will feel like as flying an aeroplane. Once a base is set up on any planet, just think about it, you can go to other planets anytime. We can go on a vacation, science trip, the possibilities are endless. And this all is made possible by a small step, roadster in space.
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