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Can I drive Elon Musk's Tesla after it's been in space for 100 Years?
We know that the the payload of the maiden Falcon Heavy flight will be... Elon Musks's Tesla Which will be placed in "Mars Orbit"
Assuming it is serviced and road ready when launched with the keys in ...
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Is the SpaceX Falcon Heavy payload (a Tesla car) space junk?
Yesterday SpaceX succeeded in the first Falcon Heavy launch, but the payload, a Tesla car has no real useful purpose (except for company prestige).
Thus, can it be considered as space junk ? How long ...
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Will the Tesla Roadster return any telemetry?
Is there any equipment fitted to the Tesla Roadster to send signals back to Earth, even for a short time after launch?
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Current speed of Tesla Roadster which is moving toward the Asteroid Belt?
I am just wondering at what speed does Tesla Roadster is currently travelling toward the Asteroid Belt (Relative to Earth)?
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What would the challenges be in developing a Falcon Heavy with three or four strap-on boosters?
Falcon Heavy has a standard Falcon 9 Full Thrust (FT) rocket core with two strap-on boosters derived from the Falcon 9 FT first stage. What about a heavier Falcon Heavy with four strap-on boosters (or ...
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Ballpark comparison of a hypothetical Falcon 'Quad' Heavy with cross feeds
This engineering question got me wondering. If cross feed technology were sufficiently developed, and stresses could be managed (these are big if's, and there are more I'm sure), how would these ...
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On the Falcon Heavy, why are the side boosters using Ti Grid fins, but not the center core?
Elon Musk showed a picture of the almost ready to fly Falcon Heavy in the HIF (Horizontal Integration Facility, aka rocket barn).
You can see the darker, larger grid fins on the side cores, and the ...
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What missions could be done with Orion on Falcon Heavy?
Orion is being developed in tandem with the SLS. But Falcon Heavy is scheduled to fly earlier, early 2015, and be cheaper. So I wonder what kind of missions Orion could do with FH. Could it for ...
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Why doesn't Tesla's Roadster melt in space?
Tesla's Roadster is somewhere above us taking sunlight directly part of the time, then very cold on the next half of the orbit. Or when it rolls, one side gets hot, the other is cold.
Why don't the ...
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How and/or why did Elon Musk mistweet Roadster's C3 so badly?
In this answer to How close would the Tesla Roadster with Starman have to get to Earth in order to become attracted and fall on Earth? I just wrote:
When Roadster was launched from Earth Elon Musk ...
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Has any payload been as silly, as the Falcon Heavy's Tesla Roadster?
Seemingly as a joke, Elon Musk suggested in a tweet that the first payload of Falcon Heavy demo flight would be his Midnight Cherry Tesla Roadster.
The first payload of Falcon 9 with a Dragon test ...
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Falcon 9R as SSTO
Seeing as the Falcon 9R first stage is close to being reusable, could it be the basis for an SSTO rocket? In other words, does it have enough performance to make it into orbit, and then boost back and ...
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No need for gravity assist with Falcon Heavy?
Elon Musk is quoted to have said, after the launch of Falcon Heavy, that «it can launch things direct to Pluto or beyond, no stop needed, don’t even need gravity assist or anything». Now, I am not an ...
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How much fuel does the Falcon Heavy use? What is the price RP-1?
Does anyone know how much fuel the Falcon Heavy can hold, the RP-1 fuel and liquid oxygen as oxidizer, and how much of that will it use to get to a certain point?
I don't know how i would calculate ...
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How close will the Tesla Roadster with Starman actually get to Mars?
I know the long term outlook is quite difficult to say, but how close will the Tesla Roadster actually get to Mars on it's first orbit around the Sun?
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