Elon Musk’s Tesla is still floating in space seven years later
Time flies when you are incredibly floating in the cold, inhabitable wastelands of space. And it’s already been seven years since SpaceX Test launched a powerful Falcon Heavy Rocket, Fire founder Elon Musk’s personal Tesla Roadster is in space. The Cherry Red sports car was still there after taking off on February 6, 2018, and suffered from a recent case of false identity when astronomers thought it was asteroid.
A lot has happened since 2018. Mask has changed Twitter to X.Ton Spaceship development. A large number of Falcon 9 will be released. A few more Falcon heavy launches. Through it, a red car and a mannequin named Starman are on track around the sun.
Tesla Roadster as a Close Object
Musk’s car was accidentally classified as an asteroid in 2025. The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center is The breaking news is in January. 2 We have announced the 2018 CN41 as a newly discovered near Earth object. Neos includes asteroids and comets.
MPC has been issued Follow-up notification On January 3rd, “The next day, it was pointed out that the orbit coincided with the 2018-017A, the heavy upper tier of the Falcon and the Tesla Roadster.
New space objects are always discovered. That’s an important job. Astronomers aim to find and track asteroids that could potentially hit Earth. MPC catalogs over 37,500 NEOs, with 190 and 190 so far in January alone. The roadster slid through the cracks and let the flash slide in time. It shows how human objects resemble natural objects.
Where is the Tesla Roadster?
Where exactly is the car now? There is a handy website to show you.
Whereisroadster.com tracks Elon Musk’s car locations in space. This map starts on January 28th, 2025. Roadster roads are green.
whereisroadster.com It has been in operation since 2018 and is tracking cars on space travel. Created by Ben Pearson, this site traces the car’s position and calculates the distance it travels. As it celebrates its seventh anniversary in space, the Roadster has “drived” about 3.5 trillion miles.
It takes about 557 days to orbit the sun. According to Pearson’s research, Tesla has exceeded its 36,000-mile warranty more than 96,330 times. The car is famous for conveying the strangeness of David Bowie’s song at the beginning of its journey. If the battery and speakers were still working, the onboard mannequin would have heard of Bowie’s masterpieces over 692,000 times. Talk about earworms.
The researchers have already looked into it A car could hit the earth One day, within a million years, we calculated the odds at just 6%. The team also came up with the Roadster to encounter Earth in 2091.
The space is tough so at this point the Roadster and its pilots could be pretty rough. What is its ultimate fate? Wandering through the solar system may be doomed. Or maybe one day you’ll be destined to get it and leave it in the museum. Does anyone want a lightly used and well-run electric car?