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Tesla Roadster (Starman)

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A car, not a working spacecraft: it has a mannequin at the wheel, launched as the dummy payload of the first Falcon Heavy (2018-02-06), on an orbit round the Sun out to about 1.67 au, just past Mars. JPL's trajectory is fitted to telescope sightings from February and March 2018 (JPL Horizons).

Measured

Agency
SpaceX
Launched
2018-02-06
From the Earth today
0.817 AU (122 million km)

How far, from the Earth

0.817 AU. To cross it:

  • Light6 minutes 47 seconds
  • Voyager 1's speed2.75 months
  • Driving at 100 km/h139 years

Voyager 1 at the speed it moved outward over the year to 2026-10-25 (JPL Horizons). Driving: nonstop, never refuelling.

Facts

  • JPL Horizons trajectory round the Sun: worst miss 87 km on the dates it was checked against (median 11 km); between those dates as much as about 260 km. Dates after the data was fetched are Horizons' predictions, which it revises as a mission flies.

Where this comes from

  • JPL Horizons; SpaceX
  • Spacecraft trajectories: JPL Horizons, NASA/JPL-Caltech; each mission's agency credited on its card.

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