Earth orbit
Demo Flight (Tesla Roadster)
Composed of three Falcon 9 boosters for a total of 27 Merlin engines in the first stage, the long-awaited, oft-delayed maiden flight of SpaceX's heavy lift rocket delivered a Tesla Roadster to solar orbit.
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View in 3D map ↗The mission
Composed of three Falcon 9 boosters for a total of 27 Merlin engines in the first stage, the long-awaited, oft-delayed maiden flight of SpaceX's heavy lift rocket delivered a Tesla Roadster to solar orbit.
The launch
- Launch
- Feb 06 2018
- Launch location
- LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center
- Launch vehicle
- Falcon Heavy
- Orbit
- Earth orbit
Launch intelligence
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched the Demo Flight (Tesla Roadster) mission on Tuesday, February 6, 2018 at 8:45 PM (UTC).
- Launch provider
- SpaceX
- Vehicle
- Falcon Heavy
- COSPAR launch ID
- 2018-017
- Flight profile
- Orbital
- Launch result
- Success
- Window opens
- Feb 6, 2018, 20:45 UTC
- Target T-0
- Not published
- Window closes
- Not published
- Provider display
- Feb 06 2018
- Pad and location
- LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center
Partly Cloudy Temp: 70.71F Wind: 8.64mph
- Temperature
- 70°F
- Forecast updated
- Feb 6, 2018, 12:03 UTC
Launch media
Mission timeline
Follow the mission through its available trajectory data in the full 3D solar-system map.
Mission ended — Archived
End date not documented
Launch succeeded; current mission operations are not tracked by RocketLaunch.Live
Gallery
0 images from Demo Flight (Tesla Roadster).
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