Published 15:54 IST, October 10th 2020

SpaceX Starman makes it to Mars for first time, comes as close as 5 mn miles

SpaceX Starman has finally made it to the red planet for the first time and had a close approach of about 5 million miles. Continue reading to learn all details

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X's Starman finally h its close approach to red planet for first time this week. Elon Musk’s Tesla roster, which was launched more than two years ago on Falcon Heavy rocket, is cruising up in with a suit-cl mannequin called Starman. X also shared a tweet stating that vehicle was able to make its very first close approach with red planet, coming as close as 5 million miles before moving apart.

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This clearly marks a huge milestone for private aero company that has alrey h numerous achievements in recent past.

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X Tesla Roster could crash into Venus or Earth

Tesla Roster is expected to crash land onto Venus or Earth in a few million years, although chances appear to be quite slim. According to a report by Professor Han Rein, University of Toronto, chances of roster crashing on Venus is about 2.5 per cent, while chances of an impact on Earth is around 6 per cent in next few million years.

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Where is Tesla Roster right w?

As reported by Where Is Roster, an online roster tracking website, X Tesla Roster has alrey travelled around 1.3 billion miles in ever since it was launched into in February 2018. number is expected to go much higher before roster is done with its journey. report also ded that vehicle has completed close to 1.7507 orbits around Sun. vehicle is more than 36 million miles from our planet, as of this writing.

According to NASA, Elon Musk's Tesla Roster, an electric sports car, is a dummy paylo for private aero company's February 2018 Falcon Heavy test mission.  flight features Tesla Roster which was built in year 2009 as an inert ballast and publicity stunt.

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Falcon Heavy is considered to be one of  most capable and highly powerful rockets in operation right w. rocket can carry as much as 63.8 metric tons into Earth's orbit.

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15:54 IST, October 10th 2020