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It's only a matter of time until it becomes profitable enough to salvage that one orbiting the Earth...
by cromka 7y ago
It's only a matter of time until it becomes profitable enough to salvage that one orbiting the Earth...
- gpm 7y agoIt's not orbiting Earth, it's orbiting the sun. I think it's fair to say that it would be the most ambitious space mission we've ever taken to try and retrieve it, at least when not adjusting for our increased technical sophistication since the appolo era...
- thejenk 7y agoI was going to mention that the one that has broken earth's orbit is the wrong vehicle and is not a first generation Tesla Roadster, but then I realised the repair woes are likely to be even worse for second generation Roadster owners. They're not likely to be produced in significantly more volume, and they're made totally in house, not based on a Lotus platform like the last one.
- greglindahl 7y agoThe first Roadster had a Lotus Elise shell, not the "platform". The "platform" is not the outside of the car, in automobile industry terms.
- jaakl 7y agoIt seems that Musk realized that the only sane fate for the cars is to throw them away as far as you can.
- jedberg 7y agoThat would be a pretty expensive recovery. It's orbiting the Sun at about the same distance as Mars. "The current location is 185,936,494 miles (299,235,874 km, 2.000 AU, 16.64 light minutes) from Earth, moving away from Earth at a speed of 2,944 mi/h (4,738 km/h, 1.32 km/s)." https://www.whereisroadster.com https://www.whereisroadster.com