
Elon Musk Launched Tesla Car In Space 7 Years Ago, Here's Where It Is Now
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- Feb 21, 2025
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It's been 7 years and 14 days since the launch of the vehicle.
It has been a little over seven years since SpaceX first test-launched its powerful Falcon Heavy rocket. The February 2018 launch also shot SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's personal Tesla Roadster, along with a mannequin named Starman, into space and the cherry-red sports car is still out there in orbit revolving around the sun. Whereisroadster.com, a website created by Ben Pearson to track the red car on its journey through space, regularly follows the car's location and calculates the distance it has travelled. According to the site, it has been exactly 7 years and 14 days since the launch of the vehicle. The Roadster has "driven" around 3.5 trillion miles, it said.
According to Mr Pearson's work, it takes the car about 557 days to orbit the sun. So, since its launch in 2018, the car has exceeded its 36,000-mile warranty by over 97,002 times. "It has achieved a fuel economy of 11,782.9 kilometres per litre," the site read.
The car famously pumped out David Bowie's song 'Space Oddity' at the start of its journey. So, if the battery and speakers were still working, the onboard mannequin would have heard Bowie's masterpiece over 698,000 times.
The mannequin named Starman, on the other hand, has completed around 4.6161 orbits around the Sun since launch. "The vehicle has travelled far enough to drive all of the world's roads 86.8 times. It has been 7 years, 14 days, 8 hours, 9 minutes and 58 seconds since launch," it noted.
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