Where is it? How fast is it flying? Will he visit his hometown this Tet?
Elon Musk makes history with the successful launch of the world’s most powerful rocket Falcon Heavy, accompanied by an extremely special package: his personal Tesla Roadster. The driver of this electric vehicle is a spacesuit called Starman, which will fly the Roadster in orbit around the Sun.
A few hours after Falcon Heavy took to the air, Elon Musk on Twitter announced that SpaceX had launched a bit too much, the electric car was flying towards the asteroid belt. However, the space and astronomy community Space.com did a little math, and calculated that the vehicle would come closer to Mars than the other asteroid belt.
The car seems to know what its father wants.
And do you doubt the Roadster’s trajectory or worry about its fate? This site called whereisroadster.com will help you follow Starman and his journey across the vast Universe. Vehicle location parameters are updated continuously.
The blue line is the Earth, the red is Mars, and the green is the Roaster.
The founder of this website is Ben Pearson, a guy who is passionate about the Universe. His brainchild, whereisroadster, uses data from NASA’s Rocket Laboratory HORIZONS System, a system dedicated to tracking objects in our Solar System. Pearson used these data to describe the speed of the Roadster electric vehicle relative to Earth and Mars.
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When will it return to Earth’s orbit to visit its old home? Or will it never come back…