SpaceX Starman Roadster completes its first orbit around the sun

You are not about to see Starman drift into the night sky, unfortunately. The Earth is currently on the opposite side of the Sun and the EV will not move closer to Earth until November 5, 2020, when it will be about 0.346 AU (just under 32.2 million miles). It will be much closer to Mars before that date, at & # 39; AU 0.05 (approximately 4.6 million miles) on October 7 of this year. After that, Starman might feel very lonely – according to estimates, he might not be particularly close to home before 2047.

Of course, this also assumes that humanity does not come to meet with it sooner. SpaceX itself is getting closer to deep space flight and the United States hopes to send people to Mars in 2030 or later. It is possible that trips to the open spaces become relatively routine when Starman travels to his home planet.