SpaceX falcon heavy launch and recovery

Oh a very cool demonstration of tech and another step to lifting heavy things back into space. Which is bloody fantastic. Might get an old space race back in play to the benefit of humanity.

Does anyone know if the roadster payload has any onboard systems to track and observe longterm? Seems a real waste not to have added that. I mean you get the thing up there and it's inert? More a Killroy was here mission than either science or engineering or exploration. And no some meta Don't Panic on a screen and a glorified DVD with some science fiction writings on it with Dave Bowie in the background to appeal to teenage social media nerds isn't close to it.

I could do without the bloody hysterically screaming fans mind you. It's like a cult meeting. Indoor voices folks. Indoor voices. Compare and contrast with the first landing on the Moon.



It's not an age thing either. The majority of the guys and gals at mission control back then were the cream of US universities like MIT and young, like early twenties young.

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Starman Live

Very cool. IT looks like it's revolving/tumbling. Does the heliocentric orbit burn come later? Or has it been shoved and it just slowly drifts to the destination?