Star Man who travels in space with the SpaceX rocket turned out to pass the destination Mars with "speeding off"



The strongest rocket launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on February 6, 2018Falcon Heavy"Was loaded with the Tesla Roadster owned by CEO Earlon Mask of the company. The driver's seat is a mannequin wrapped in space suit "Star man'Sits and enjoys' driving' to Mars, after the launchSpeed ​​out too muchTurned out. When following this route, apparently there are countless large and small rocks passing through the orbit of Mars greatlyAsteroid beltIt was clear that the possibility of rushing in.

Elon Musk's Tesla roadster, which launched on top of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy earlier today, is going farther out into the solar system than originally planned. - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/6/16983744/spacex-tesla-falcon-heavy-roadster-orbit-asteroid-belt-elon-musk-mars

Wrong turn, dummy: Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster heads off course towards asteroid belt
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SpaceX's huge rocket "Falcon Heavy" is the rocket showing the strongest launch capability existing by bundling three Falcon 9 rockets. Falcon Heavy injected a total of 27 rocket engines at full power in a launch test conducted on local time in February 6, 2018 (Tue) at 15:45 in the United States of America, and the Tesla · Succeeded to launch the Roadster into space.

Successful launch of SpaceX 's super large rocket "Falcon Heavy" that realized the SF world as an open car aiming for Mars - GIGAZINE
https://gigazine.net/news/20180207-spacex-falcon-heavy-launch/

StarMan who was launched with the 1st rocket will take the timing after launch, ride on the orbit which orbits the earth for a while. Approximately six hours after the launch, it reignited the second stage rocket to Mars one way. By escaping the Earth's gravity zone by accelerating it, it increases the altitude and heads to MarsHoerman transition orbitA picture of the appearance on the screen is transmitted from the following image.


Reignition was carried out around California around 21 o'clock local time, and it seems that it could be observed from the ground. There are several pictures on Twitter at that time.


However, it seems that a problem has appeared in the stage of reignition. It was the 2nd stage we finally made a rocket injection to travel to Mars, but this burning was a little "getting along well", which speeded up more than planned. In order to get on track to Mars as planned, it is necessary to precisely preserve the speed calculated beforehand, but the 2nd stage is in a state where it puts out too much speed and it detached the star man as it is It was.

Mr. Mask publishes Starman's predicted trajectory with a comment "Third burn succeeded, passing through the orbit of Mars to the asteroid belt".


Star man aims at Mars on the green line from the earth drawn on the upper left. However, as you can see from this illustration, the planet beyond the orbit of Mars greatly crosses the dwarf planet between JupiterCeresTo the moment to reach the orbit of. And here is the "asteroid belt" where countless rocks float in the universe.


You can avoid danger by stepping on the brake when you put too much speed on the ground. Unfortunately, in space we can not reduce the speed of the car without depressing the brake pedal any more. Moreover, the rocket engine which becomes the only driving force has already been separated. That is why Tesla Roadster and Starman have no choice but to leave themselves in the laws of physics of the solar system and have only to float in the universe. I hopefully hope that it will not collide with rocks in the asteroid belt, but the letters "Do not Panic" displayed on the center console of the Roadster will release an atmosphere of not being able to say anything.


By the way, "Do not Panic" is one of the keywords to appear in the Space SF series "Space Hitchhiker's Guide", and in the work is the ebook "Mikado Shobo" published by the large publisher Megado Shobo at the Kogumi Beta Star "Space Hitchhiker's Guide It appears as a word that is written largely on the front cover. In SpaceX, the name of the drone ship "Just Read The Instructions" and "Of Course I still love you" when the rocket returns to the sea are shown in the SF novel by Ian Banks "Game playerIt is named after from Space Mania such as being named from.

What is the Galactic Hitchhiker · Guide (What is the Ginga Hitchhiker Guide) [Word Articles] - The Great Wizard
http://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/宇宙ヒッチハイクガイド

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