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Description: Track Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster and Starman's current orbital position in real-time. Roadster's current distance: about 271941044 km from Earth and roughly 435681599 km from Mars
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On February 6, 2018 at 20:45 UTC SpaceX performed the maiden test flight of their Falcon Heavy rocket using Elon Musk's old Tesla Roadster as a part of dummy payload. The purpose of launching a large heavy object on the maiden flight was to demonstrate that the Falcon Heavy can launch payloads as far as the orbit of Mars, although traditionally concrete or steel blocks are used for this purpose.
Elon Musk once said the launch of the new Falcon Heavy vehicle was risky, and that it would carry the "silliest thing we can imagine". He tweeted on December 1, 2017 that the payload was his car. Later, he published pictures of the car taken before payload encapsulation.
The car was launched into space with enough velocity to escape the Earth, and after cruising for about 6 hours on Earth's orbit it entered an elliptical heliocentric orbit that crosses the orbit of Mars. That trajectory was not designed to intercept Mars, so the car will not fly by Mars nor enter an orbit around Mars. During the early portion of the voyage the roadster functioned as a broadcast device, sending breathtaking live video back to Earth for about four hours.
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