Where Is SpaceX's Starman Now?

About three years passed since Space X launched a Tesla in space, and it seems like forever ago, because meanwhile a bunch of things happened.
But the memory we have about that day it's so vivid that it could've happened yesterday.
But...what happened to the Tesla Roadster with Starman on board and the “DON'T PANIC” quote on the dashboard? Follow me on this journey to get to know more about Starman and his Tesla.
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But, before telling you what happened to it, let's make a little step back.
In fact, some of you may have missed the launch and may be asking why we launched a Tesla around the Sun.
Everything started with the SpaceX piano of building the Falcon Heavy launcher, a powerful rocket.
 Falcon Heavy is composed of three Falcon 9 nine-engine cores whose 27 Merlin engines together generate more than 5 million pounds of thrust at liftoff, equal to approximately eighteen 747 aircraft, or, if you want, approximately 26.597 Elon Musk (assuming for the SpaceX CEO a weight of about 188 pounds).
But if you are going to launch a brand new rocket, you have to be sure that the new launcher it's going to work!
In the end, they opted for launching it loading a Tesla. With a mannequin on board.
It was something spectacular and useful at the same time.
In fact, they just wanted to test the launcher: the Tesla was used as a Dummy payload.
The inaugural flight of the Falcon Heavy was an unloaded scientific test.
Since Elon Musk is at the head of Tesla, he came up to mind to launch his own Tesla, the one that he used to drive to work.
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Credits: Ron Miller
Credits: Nasa/Shutterstock/Storyblocks/Elon Musk/SpaceX/ESA/ESO
Credits: Flickr

Video Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:25 Launch and Mission Overview
06:04 Where is the Vehicle?

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[KevinD]

The actual answer to where it is starts at 6:05.

[DBK]

Everybody knows it’s filming fast and furious 25 “moon drift”

[WesternCivics]

I feel like the falcon heavy launch carrying the Tesla was yesterday i can’t believe it’s been 3 years!

[NorthernChev]

What was with all the crazy rocket footage that WASN’T Falcon Heavy, while talking about Falcon Heavy?

[firefistace]

Every second, that car break records... LOL

[abnegazher]

He's chillin and living the dream.

[jakem]

Stock footage wasn't even Falcon Heavy! Come on people.

[grnmtns]

So why pray tell do you have Starman in a 62 Chevy Corvette when he is in a Tesla? I find your videos far too long for the little information delivered.

[dyingearth]

It's a perfect crime. There's a body underneath that suit.

[martiddy]

SpaceX made the best car advertisement ever with that launch

[kwamepi]

Have waited for this update for long and now here it is...hope to hear again shortly

[xTwiztedChaosx]

Well, it's 2022, where is it now?

[scotttaylor]

Here i am, envious of the way Rocket man spent his 2020

[rwarren]

I only hope that Starman is found by another civilization. I can see them frantically trying to reverse engineer the tesla and marveling at how Earthers "obviously" all have their own personal space craft.

[A_Casual_NPC]

Launching a Tesla into space felt like ages ago? Bitch please, shit still feels like yesterday and God I'm getting old

[henrybowden]

Something mildly amusing was an advert immediately before this video started. The ad was for a vehicle tracking device. I wonder if Elon Musk put one of those in his Tesla before it was shot into space.

[albclean]

The mannequin didn't hear the music in space sound doesn't travel in a vacuum.
🤣

[leoisstellar]

There is no question to ask. This era won't see Star Man again.

[luarluar]

by the time this video comes to an end the spaceman will have travelled to the end of the univese and back.