Where is the Tesla Roadster, the car that Elon Musk launched into space?

American space transportation company SpaceX, whose founder is Elon Musk, went into space 6 years ago. He launched a red Tesla.

The car called Roadster is currently soaring in the depths of space continues. So where exactly do you say?

Elon Musk sent the Tesla Roadster sports car into space atop the Falcon Heavy rocket on February 6, 2018.

The car was mounted on the rocket and was in the driver’s seat. A puppet named “Starman” dressed in an astronaut suit He was sitting.

total weight The car and its dummy weigh 1,360.78 kg, It aimed to show that future missions could launch heavy payloads to Mars. Elon Musk said that he wanted to inspire the possibility of something new occurring in space.

The exciting moment when the sports car was launched into space:

Since the car was launched into space in 2018, finding out its whereabouts has become a curiosity.

The Roadster orbits the Sun in an irregular orbit every 557 days. According to NASA, this orbit is technically will remain stable for several million years But solar and cosmic radiation and micrometeroid effects will probably destroy the vehicle over time.

According to the predictions of Astrophysicist Hanno Rein at the University of Toronto, Roadster; It will hit the Earth, Venus or the Sun. In the next 15 million years While the probability of colliding with the Earth is 22% 12% chance of hitting Venus or the Sun.

It is possible to track the location of the vehicle in real time.

Exactly where the vehicle is, tracking location using NASA data You can follow it live at whereisroadster.com. For example, it is currently 90,828,196 km from Earth, 349,813,204 km from Mars and 161,386,075 km from the Sun.

Since its launch, it has completed approximately 4.0885 orbits around the Sun and Enough to travel around the world 78 times distance gone.

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