Tesla Roadster
A cherry-red sports car with a dummy in the driver's seat, on a real orbit around the Sun.
Where it is right now
Tesla Roadster is in Pisces, 0.77 AU away.
Computed for 2 August 2026, 01:00 UTC, and recomputed at least hourly. This page is cached, so treat the line above as accurate to the hour rather than to the second. The map shows the live position.
Position from a Kepler propagation of the published elements below, accurate to about an arcminute.
Facts
Every line carries the source it came from.
- Launched
- 2018-Feb-06, on the first Falcon Heavy, as the test flight's mass simulatorSource: SpaceX Falcon Heavy Test Flight
- Owner
- Elon Musk (@elonmusk), who put his own car on the rocketSource: https://x.com/elonmusk
- Driver
- Starman, a mannequin in a SpaceX pressure suitSource: SpaceX
- Orbit
- 0.986 AU at perihelion out to 1.664 AU at aphelion, crossing Mars's orbitSource: NASA/JPL Horizons, spacecraft -143205
- Year length
- 557 days, so it has gone round the Sun about 5.6 times since launchSource: NASA/JPL Horizons, spacecraft -143205
- Still there?
- Yes, though the battery died within hours and it has not transmitted sinceSource: SpaceX
Physical size
- Mean radius
- 2 m
- Diameter
- 0.0 km across
Orbit
Elements are heliocentric, referred to the J2000.0 ecliptic.
- Average distance from the Sun
- 1.325 AU (198.3 million km)
- Closest and furthest
- 0.986 AU (147.5 million km) to 1.664 AU (249.0 million km)
- Eccentricity
- 0.2559, noticeably elliptical
- Inclination to the ecliptic
- 1.07 degrees
- Orbital period
- 557.3 days
- Longitude of ascending node
- 316.87 degrees
- Argument of periapsis
- 177.78 degrees
- Mean anomaly at J2000.0
- 51.19 degrees
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The cherry-red Roadster SpaceX launched in 2018, still on its real orbit. One of these, bought once, kept forever.
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