It has been a little over seven years since SpaceX first test-launched its powerful Falcon Heavy rocket. The February 2018 launch also shot SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's personal Tesla Roadster into space ...
An astronomer there verified the finding. And thus, the Minor Planet Center logged a new object, asteroid “2018 CN41.” Within 24 hours, however, the center retracted the designation.
As strange as that sounds, the car was launched in February 2018 and attached to the Falcon Heavy upper-stage booster.
The red Tesla Roadster was mistaken for an undiscovered asteroid by astronomers.
The organization initially named it 2018 CN41, mistaking it for a newly discovered near-Earth object. However, the mistake was later corrected, and the object was reclassified as 2018-017A, which ...
An asteroid close to Earth! It certainly rang a few alarms at NASA. Now, asteroids pose a significant threat to Earth, and space agencies worldwide, including NASA, continuously track them to assess ...
SpaceX streamed video of the Tesla Roadster in space after the launch.