But after a day, they removed the thing, which was identified as 2018 CN41, after realising it wasn’t a natural object—rather, it was a Tesla tied to a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket ... However, the ...

Observers spotted and correctly identified the vehicle as it started its extraterrestrial excursion in February 2018 — after it had blasted off into space during the Falcon Heavy rocket’s ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket illuminated the skies over Southern California Monday night as it soared into low-Earth orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County. The launch ...

Speaking to Astronomy magazine, the citizen scientist who originally discovered the object said they had barely considered the launch of the Falcon Heavy when submitting his find to the MPC.

Astronomer Jonathan McDowell from the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics then confirmed the suspicions, leading to the retraction by MPC. “The Falcon launch had never crossed my mind.

"I failed—the Falcon launch had never crossed my mind ... MOID [minimum orbital intersection distance]), I quickly went to MPC's help desk and let them know the NEO I submitted was a rocket ...

is being deleted," the MPC said in the retraction notice. "The next day it was pointed out the orbit matches an artificial object 2018-017A, Falcon Heavy Upper stage with the Tesla roadster.

Elon Musk’s rocket manufacturing company SpaceX on Tuesday launched its Falcon 9 rocket with 27 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from California and subsequently landed a Falcon 9 rocket ...