Where is Starman? Track Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster in Space!
2022.02.14
On February 6, 2018, at 2045 UTC, the first Falcon Heavy was launched into space. It contained a very special payload- a Tesla Roadster with Starman.
But where is this vehicle? The current location is 200,432,186 miles (322,564,435 km, 2.156 AU, 17.93 light minutes) from Earth, moving toward Earth at a speed of 10,852 mi/h (17,464 km/h, 4.85 km/s).
The car is 285,124,519 miles (458,863,575 km, 3.067 AU, 25.51 light minutes) from Mars, moving away from the planet at a speed of 14,670 mi/h (23,609 km/h, 6.56 km/s).
The car is 140,331,597 miles (225,841,883 km, 1.510 AU, 12.56 light minutes) from the Sun, moving away from the star at a speed of 11,000 mi/h (17,704 km/h, 4.92 km/s).
The car has exceeded its 36,000 mile warranty 70,521.1 times while driving around the Sun, (2,538,758,935 miles, 4,085,737,724 km, 27.31 AU) moving at a speed of 50,364 mi/h (81,053 km/h, 22.51 km/s). The orbital period is about 557 days.
It has achieved a fuel economy of 20,148.9 miles per gallon (8,566.2 km/liter, 0.01167 liters/100 km), assuming 126,000 gallons of fuel.
If the battery was still working, Starman has listened to Space Oddity 499,882 times since he launched in one ear, and to Is there Life On Mars? 673,569 times in his other ear.
Starman has completed about 3.3032 orbits around the Sun since launch.
A telescope about 47,341 ft (14,429 m) in diameter would be required to resolve the Upper stage from Earth. A smaller one could see him as an unresolved dot, about 91.0 ft (27.7 m) in diameter, in ideal conditions.
The vehicle has traveled far enough to drive all of the world’s roads 63.6 times.
It has been 5 years, 14 days, 4 hours, 12 minutes and 3 seconds since launch.
