There’s a saying that “time flies when you having fun”, but in this case, “time flies when you are floating’. Five years ago, SpaceX launched their powerful rocket for the first time and their CEO, Elon Musk, sent his personal Tesla Roadster car into space.
The car was sent into space on the 6th of February, 2018 and not much has been heard about it ever since. The car has a mannequin named Starman in its front seat, they have been orbiting around the sun for 5 years. Space X created a website that gives details on the journey of this car and it’s mannequin.
Whereisroadster.com is a website that was created to document the car’s journey through space since 2018. Space X revealed that Roadster was due to cross the orbit of Mars for the fourth time since the time it was launched into space. It takes Roadster about 557 days to orbit the sun.
Researches have been carried out on the possibility of the car colliding with earth in a million years and the possibility is only 6%. Roadster will come closest to the Earth in the year 2091 when it will be a few hundred thousand kilometres away from planet Earth.
Space is not a very friendly environment, the Roadster would definitely get bruised from time to time. We hope that humanity will find a way to get it back and put it in a museum someday but the chances of this happening is highly unlikely. Currently, the car is 203,276,831 miles away from planet Earth and it’s traveling at a speed of 6,646 miles per hour.
Roadster is 280,272,712 miles from Mars and 136,725,234 miles from the Sun, but these distances are changing as it travels through space. Space X said that the vehicle has gone around the world over 63 times. There’s a very high possibility that that the vehicle will eventually get destroyed either from corrosion or it will get crushed from a major collision with another object in space.