A Car in Space?

For today's post, we are looking at a car in space? That's weird. Well, recently Elon Musk the CEO of SpaceX launched his electric sports car into space. I'll tell you some information about the sports car.

Starman in the Roadster

In his sports car is a dummy driver named Starman, dresses in a spacesuit in the driver's seat. His sports car has two names: Roadster and SpaceX Roadster. The rocket launched this year at 7 February, 9:45 AM (New Zealand Daylight Time). SpaceX operates the car. It got launched at John F. Kennedy Space Centre, Launch Complex 39 (LC-39). Really this mission was a test flight. The manufacturer of the car is Tesla and SpaceX.

The license for the launch was issued by the US Office of Commercial Space Transportation on February 2 2018. On February 6 2018, it was placed in Earth parking orbit. The previous launches, SpaceX live streamed a video feed and in this space mission, there are cameras inside and outside the Roadster.

SpaceX did not say how long the mission would run, Elon Musk said the car battery would last for 12 hours, but the live stream actually ran for just over four hours.

Where is Roadster now?

whereisroadster.com, which tracks where is Roadster

The Tesla travelogue has the sports car location, on Wednesday 21 February afternoon. It was 4.5 million kilometres away [0.030 astronomical units (one astronomical unit or AU, is the average distance between the sun and earth - about 150 million km or 93 million miles)] from earth. Roadster's speed is at 12,122 km/h (7,532 miles per hour).

But now, the Roadster is about 216.1 million km (134.3 million miles or 1.445 AU) from Mars, moving at a speed of 69,287 km/h (43,052 mph).

Future Predictions

There are predictions that the time span of the Roadster is over 3 million years! Wow! But there is a chance of 6% Roadster colliding (means accidentally crash) to earth, and around 2.5% crashing in Venus.

I hope you like my post about Elon Musk's car in space. Comment down below. Have a cool day!! Bye!!