Elon Musk used his Tesla Roadster for an important event 4 years ago. In this event, where Musk combined his passion for Mars and Tesla, the vehicle was sent to space with the target of Mars, together with SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket, known as the world’s most powerful operational rocket.
THAT TESLA IS STILL MOVING IN SPACE WITH STARMAN
The cherry-red sports car behind the wheel of a mannequin in a spacesuit nicknamed “Starman” is still in space, traveling in a lone, rectangular orbit around the sun, traveling as far as the orbit of Mars, CNN Business reports, and at other times Earth. as close as the orbit of .
But the vehicle was not sent for a scientific voyage, it was a test launch. That’s why SpaceX needed a fake payload. That’s why he chose his own Tesla roadster.
WHERE IS ELON MUSK’S TESLA NOW?
As of Monday, the rover was about 376.5 million km (234 million miles) from Earth and about 322 million km (200 million miles) from Mars, according to whoisroadster.com, which uses NASA’s data to track it, and is in an unmanned space realm. was passing.
Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told CNN Business that the roadster is still in one piece, but was most likely targeted by some meteoroids during its voyage through the cosmos.
According to its website, in the last four years, the roadster has traveled about 3.2 billion km (2 billion miles) and has completed about 2.6 revolutions around the sun in a mostly barren vacuum.