Here's a vid of the payload, BTW:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8PEnK3aoFQ?t=27
Quote from: FutureSpaceTourist on 12/08/2017 08:06 amA further, but very important, payload detail:Seems to me the Roadster needs a driver, and while Buzz Lightyear is an amusing thought, Musk is the best driver for his own car. And since he's not really available, I nominate IronMan. In particular, a lego replica seems appropriate to be launched by a Heavy....
A further, but very important, payload detail:
Quote from: Oersted on 01/12/2018 09:42 pmHere's a vid of the payload, BTW:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8PEnK3aoFQ?t=27I thought that would be a video of someone walking around the roadster on the PAF or something like that, not just a vid of the car driving
I wonder if they put a crash test dummy inside the spacesuit and if its actially instrumented.Thats likely not info SpaceX would share, but it kinda would make sense - if you put a spacesuit through an interplanetary test, u might as well get some data from it. At least some basics - temperature, pressure, maybe radiation, acceleration? ( although the regular 2nd stage telemetry already gices them that )
He will bring it back, and then drive it again on earth.
I wonder if they put a crash test dummy inside the spacesuit and if its actially instrumented.
Will we see a lunar flyby of the current mission? If so, when? Thanks
Quote from: PeterAlt on 02/06/2018 11:42 pmWill we see a lunar flyby of the current mission? If so, when? ThanksI saw the moon, on the camera, if that counts.However no, the current mission will not be flying by the moon.
Quote from: speedevil on 02/06/2018 11:54 pmQuote from: PeterAlt on 02/06/2018 11:42 pmWill we see a lunar flyby of the current mission? If so, when? ThanksI saw the moon, on the camera, if that counts.However no, the current mission will not be flying by the moon.Will there still be communication when it flys by Mars? If so, how? It won’t still be attached to the second stage, or will it? It could get closer to the moon on a subsequent Earth flyby, right? And will it still have power then?