This Website Lets You Track Elon Musk’s Sports Car Through Space

This Website Lets You Track Elon Musk’s Sports Car Through Space

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https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bj5jgq/where-is-tesla-space-rocket-falcon-heavy

Last Tuesday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made history when he launched the Falcon Heavy, the most powerful rocket since the Saturn V took Apollo astronauts to the moon. The Heavy’s payload was Musk’s personal Tesla roadster, a $100,000 luxury car made by one of Musk’s other companies. Six hours after launch, the car and its passenger—an empty SpaceX suit dubbed “Starman”— were on an escape trajectory that Musk hoped would put the car in an elliptical orbit around the Sun and allow for some closes brushes with Mars.

A few hours later, Musk took to Twitter to announce that SpaceX had overshot its planned trajectory a wee bit and the hot rod was now headed to the asteroid belt. According to Space.com, however, the Twitter astro community ran the numbers and it appears that the car will actually pass closer to Mars than the asteroid belt.