Tesla Car Orbit. Tesla is accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy with electric cars, solar and integrated renewable energy solutions for homes and businesses. It's been over two years since this supercar was launched into orbit, but whatever happened to it?
Now in an elliptical orbit around the sun, the Tesla Roadster launched atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket Tuesday during the powerful booster's maiden flight was expected to pass beyond the moon's. Two years in space will have taken its toll on the Tesla and the spacesuit-wearing mannequin named Starman at the wheel. It's been over two years since this supercar was launched into orbit, but whatever happened to it?
The car caught a ride into space with SpaceX's.
Strapped to the SpaceX Falcon Heavy this car was one of Elon Musk's first electric cars the inspired the future of Tesla and is the basis of the new soon-to-debut Tesla Roadster.
Watch a live webcam stream of the car as it creates spectacular views of Earth from space. Elon Musk's red Tesla Roadster that was launched into space by SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket last year has completed its first orbit around the sun. The vehicle hitched a ride into space in the payload of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy.