Tesla Roadster with ‘Starman’ completes first orbit around the sun

The Tesla Roadster and the Starman dummy, sent into space on the Falcon Heavy rocket in 2018, made the first revolution around the Sun. According to preliminary calculations, the Roadster will be at the closest point to Earth only on November 5, 2020.

According to the Where is Roadster? Website, a car with a mannequin made its first orbit around the Sun after 557 days in space. Since then, he overcame 122 million km, although it was originally planned that he could only survive in space for 58 thousand km.

The site also noted that since the launch of David Bowie's Space Oddity song has already played 152 thousand times, and Tesla itself has overcome such a distance that is 34 times greater than all the roads of the Earth. An average vehicle moves at a speed of 121 thousand km per hour.

The company has already said that previously a red electric car flew out of the orbit of Mars. According to the initial calculations of SpaceX, the car will be in space for about a billion years. However, new studies have shown: the likelihood that it can crash into Earth or Venus over several tens of millions of years has increased. Also, an electric car may collide with space debris.

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