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RE: How Will The SpaceX Roadster Degrade Over Time?
Good point. The launch was fantastic. I hope that this artifact does not become a hazardous cloud of debris in the future.
Good point. The launch was fantastic. I hope that this artifact does not become a hazardous cloud of debris in the future.
I thought the endstate for this is to get it to Mars, but now I think its just supposed to eventually reach Mars just stay in orbit. Assuming of course nothing goes wrong en route of course.
My guess is that it was illegal for them to go near Mars because there is no way to sterilize that roadster. We don't want Elon's microbes contaminating the pristine Mars environment I guess.
The final orbit goes out past Mars into the asteroid belt. It will loop back to Earth in a ~1.5 year orbit.
My earlier post on this very topic.
Not sure if you familiar with this stuff in space website, I just learned about it. You can track where the Tesla is, among many other satellites and debris. Just some FYI if you interested.
http://stuffin.space/?search=tesla%20roadster