Ben Pearson created a website that tracks the Roadster’s location, whereisroadster.com. According to Pearson, the vehicle was on course to “cross the orbit of Mars for the fourth time since it launched” at the beginning of last week. It apparently takes 557 days for the vehicle to orbit the Sun, and the odds that it could hit Earth one day are calculated at roughly 6 percent in a million years.
Where is Elon Musk’s car after 5 years in space?
Answer: Somewhere north of 201,300,000 miles from Earth (currently).
It’s been five years since Tesla and SpaceX (and Twitter, but who’s counting?) CEO Elon Musk launched his cherry red Tesla Roadster into space. The stunt was for SpaceX’s first test launch of its Falcon Heavy rocket on Feb. 6, 2018. “Driven” by Starman, a mannequin decked out in SpaceX’s signature spacesuit, the car is still circling the cosmos.
Ben Pearson created a website that tracks the Roadster’s location, whereisroadster.com. According to Pearson, the vehicle was on course to “cross the orbit of Mars for the fourth time since it launched” at the beginning of last week. It apparently takes 557 days for the vehicle to orbit the Sun, and the odds that it could hit Earth one day are calculated at roughly 6 percent in a million years.
The harsh environment of space has undoubtedly not been kind to the car or its occupant. It has gone over its 36,000-mile warranty an estimated 70,050 times at this point. And humanity’s best chance to see it will be in 2091, when it is expected to pass within a couple hundred thousand miles of Earth.
Ben Pearson created a website that tracks the Roadster’s location, whereisroadster.com. According to Pearson, the vehicle was on course to “cross the orbit of Mars for the fourth time since it launched” at the beginning of last week. It apparently takes 557 days for the vehicle to orbit the Sun, and the odds that it could hit Earth one day are calculated at roughly 6 percent in a million years.
