Starman and Tesla Roadster overtake Mars, according to SpaceX

The SpaceX Starman and the Cherry Red Tesla Roadster traveled beyond Mars. SpaceX presented a diagram of the car formerly driven by the aerospace manufacturer's CEO, Elon Musk, indicating that it now exceeded the red planet.

Sharing Starman's current position in a Twitter diagram, SpaceX also tweeted to wink at Douglas Adams' flagship work. The Galactic Traveler's Guide, who is loved by Musk. (The restaurant at the end of the universe refers to the second book in the series.) The dash of the Roadster itself even has a nod to the Hitchhiker's GuideAs Space.com notes, the words "Do not panic" on its control panel also appeared on a cover of the novel.

In February, SpaceX launched the Tesla Roadster and its inanimate pbadenger as a payload for the inaugural launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket, a feat that was largely perceived as a publicity stunt by Musk.

"The load will be my midnight cherry Tesla Roadster playing Space Oddity", Musk tweeted in December before its launch. "The destination is the orbit of Mars. Will be in space for a billion years if it does not explode. "

The old carousel Musk is not the only thing he plans to film in space for no other purpose than novelty. In October, Musk tweeted that Tesla owners could ask a friend to buy one of his cars and "get the image of their choice engraved with laser on glbad and sent into space for millions of years" . the type of image that can be submitted, which will not fail to present itself real jewels.)

The Roadster arrived beyond March about nine months after its initial launch, but it will not stay there. By Space.com:

According to an orbit modeling study, the Roadster and Starman will be a few hundred thousand kilometers away from our planet. The authors of this study determined that the car would be projected on Venus or Earth, probably in the next tens of millions of years. They give the space car a 6% chance of hitting the Earth in a million years and 2.5% hitting Venus during this time.

Since it's essentially impossible to drive again with this thing anyway, it's probably fine.