The newly discovered asteroid, named 2018 CN41, turned out to be a Tesla launched into space by SpaceX in 2018.
According to SpaceX’s own calculation, the Roadster completed its first orbit around the Sun in August 2019 and made its first close approach to Mars on Oct. 7, 2020.
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An Amateur Astronomer Seemingly Spotted a New Asteroid. It Turned Out to Be a Tesla in SpaceThe car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...
Musk launched his personal Tesla Roadster into space on February 6, 2018, as a test payload for the Falcon Heavy rocket.
SpaceX still launched 122 more rockets than Rocket Lab did. And SpaceX grew its rocket launches by 40, versus Rocket La ...
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SpaceX Hits Milestone for Recoverable First-Stage RocketsThe vast majority of its 400 successful rocket launches and landings have been of the Falcon 9, though that has taken several ...
What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly-discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through ...
A story you may have seen recently claims an asteroid spotted this month by an astronomer turned out to be a Tesla in space.
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Newly discovered near-Earth asteroid isn't an asteroid at all — it's Elon Musk's trashed TeslaAstronomers have retracted the discovery of a new asteroid after realizing the object was the remains of Elon Musk's Tesla ...
The seventh test flight of SpaceX's Starship has successfully taken off from Boca Chica, Texas. Newsweek's live blog is ...
SpaceX launched the Hisdesat SpainSat Next Generation I via a Falcon 9 rocket out of Kennedy Space Center Wednesday night.
Less than 24 hours after the Minor Planet Center announced a new asteroid, it said the object was actually Musk's electric ...
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