In 2018, SpaceX and Elon Musk created quite a buzz by riding a Falcon Heavy rocket, a Tesla Roadster. Steering space for the car manufacturer’s sports car, with Starman on board, a model designed to return to Earth one day.
Yes Roadster launch into space He put little stars in the eyes of many Tesla owners, and we also heard dissonant voices denouncing the futility of this initiative. After all, the car does not perform any scientific function, it is, after all, just another junk navigating the interstellar infinity…
To Mars and beyond
Despite everything, Starman’s galactic saga, the model on the wheel of the Space Roadster, continues to wow fans! Location Where is the roadster? Advance to keep up with the position of the vehicle and the distance traveled. Currently, the fireball is approaching Mars, 192 million kilometers from the red planet, and 377 million kilometers (or approximately 21 light minutes) from Earth.
The concentric “path” that the vehicle follows means that it has already crossed the orbit of Mars, for example in november 2018. Its speed is 3,430 km / h, which is more than enough to grill the radars (there is nothing in space, at least not yet). In just over four years, the Roadster has saved the equivalent of 477,000 liters of gasoline, or an economy of 6,736 km/l.
If the batteries are still working, Starman will listen space oddities 402,119 times, or 541,839 times Is there any life on Mars?. Even if we liked these songs, they must be boring after a while… Since launching into space, the pilot has completed 2.6 revolutions around the sun. In other words, the car has traveled 50 times all the roads on Earth!
By following its path, the car could crash into its home planet in … 15 million years, Cornell University estimates!
