Originally Posted By: KrisZ
I watched this for a while and can someone explain why from the same camera angle the earth comes and goes into view? If the roadster is strapped to a rocket on a trajectory to orbit sun, why is it rotating on its own axis?
It was put into an elyptical orbit around earth for about 6 hours. Then the final rocket burned, pushing it outward into further orbit. It will continue orbiting the earth, sun, and planets for the next hundreds of millions/billions of years. Most spacecraft have tiny rocket motors that they can use to keep the spacecraft in a straight fashion, or to adjust its telemetry. From what I understand, this Tesla has nothing like that, so it will just spin around endlessly for practically forever until it collides with something or burns up in the atmosphere of the sun or some planet.