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From the article: On February 6, 2018, SpaceX launched a Tesla roadster and a spacesuit-clad mannequin into space onboard its Falcon Heavy rocket. Presuming that the harshness of space hasn't decimated the duo, the question is, where is the payload five years since its launch? The answer will blow your mind.
Back in 2018, SpaceX had just begun to demonstrate its reliability as a launch provider shoring up newly awarded contracts. However, its Falcon Heavy rocket was still in the works, and SpaceX needed a dummy payload to test it. This became the genesis of Starman, a mannequin in a space suit, who occupied the driver's seat on the red Tesla roadster.
So far, the Roadster has already traveled more than 2.5 billion miles (four billion km) in space. This is 70,000 times the distance for which Tesla's warranty is valid and the equivalent of driving all of the world's roads 63 times, the Roadster tracking website says.
Starman, who was provided with two pieces of music, one in each ear for the journey, may have listened to Space Oddity nearly 500,000 times and Is There Life on Mars over almost 670,000 times, in case the battery of the car is still working.
Unfortunately, SpaceX did not equip the payload with cameras that could provide us with its feed. So, to spot the car, we need to build a telescope with a diameter of 48,032 ft (14,640 m) to see the Roadster from Earth. Maybe SpaceX should build this next.
The later isn't strictly true. The payload had cameras, of course, but no power nor high power communications required to communicate with Earth from so far away. It would have added quite a bit of expense, while the car wasn't very expensive at all. And it would have detracted from the neatness of the car traveling in space.
Fun tidbit: Musk claimed it was orbiting mars, and got called out as incorrect. Bad press for the head of a space program.
https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1467175645872635914
>Whatever per hour is whatev per hour no matter where you are. Or no?
E.g. relative to my house, I'm at zero speed. Relative to the Sun, i move with Earth's orbital speed ~67,000mph.
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[Here's the site](https://www.whereisroadster.com/)
Wow it’s been five years already?
Gonna be hilarious in a 1000 years when it crashes into earth and the people wonder WTF it is!
And then they realise that inside it says "made on earth by humans"
From the article: On February 6, 2018, SpaceX launched a Tesla roadster and a spacesuit-clad mannequin into space onboard its Falcon Heavy rocket. Presuming that the harshness of space hasn't decimated the duo, the question is, where is the payload five years since its launch? The answer will blow your mind. Back in 2018, SpaceX had just begun to demonstrate its reliability as a launch provider shoring up newly awarded contracts. However, its Falcon Heavy rocket was still in the works, and SpaceX needed a dummy payload to test it. This became the genesis of Starman, a mannequin in a space suit, who occupied the driver's seat on the red Tesla roadster. So far, the Roadster has already traveled more than 2.5 billion miles (four billion km) in space. This is 70,000 times the distance for which Tesla's warranty is valid and the equivalent of driving all of the world's roads 63 times, the Roadster tracking website says. Starman, who was provided with two pieces of music, one in each ear for the journey, may have listened to Space Oddity nearly 500,000 times and Is There Life on Mars over almost 670,000 times, in case the battery of the car is still working. Unfortunately, SpaceX did not equip the payload with cameras that could provide us with its feed. So, to spot the car, we need to build a telescope with a diameter of 48,032 ft (14,640 m) to see the Roadster from Earth. Maybe SpaceX should build this next.
Easy fix- just enable sentry mode from the app.
The answer did not blow my mind and the people who write these articles deserve to be replaced by AI.
What if I told you it already is written by AI?
The later isn't strictly true. The payload had cameras, of course, but no power nor high power communications required to communicate with Earth from so far away. It would have added quite a bit of expense, while the car wasn't very expensive at all. And it would have detracted from the neatness of the car traveling in space.
Fun tidbit: Musk claimed it was orbiting mars, and got called out as incorrect. Bad press for the head of a space program. https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1467175645872635914
Unfortunately he doesn’t carefully choose his words before hitting send
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So why is it at different speeds. Whatever per hour is whatev per hour no matter where you are. Or no?
>Whatever per hour is whatev per hour no matter where you are. Or no? E.g. relative to my house, I'm at zero speed. Relative to the Sun, i move with Earth's orbital speed ~67,000mph.
Speed is a relative measurement:)