Tesla Roadster & “Starman” is catalogued in this registry as an artifact, held in the frame of Tesla Roadster, from A Profile of Humanity (P. Quast).
Registry id QST_ART_TESLA_ROADSTER_STARMAN ·
source layer quast ·
provenance PROCESSED — derived deterministically from source catalogues (unit, frame and epoch conversions, cross-source reconciliation) — no value invented
Exists from 2018-02-06 00:00:00 UTC (JD 2458155.5) — no end date is recorded.
Open Tesla Roadster & “Starman” in the live scene → The scene composes a position for any date and is where a figure becomes a picture. It downloads the whole catalogue first: measured against the built product, an object outside the core resolves after about 16 s over a local network and about 147 s over a 4 Mbit link, having transferred roughly 70 MB. If you cannot wait that long, this page is the answer.
| Quantity | Value | Uncertainty | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Radius | 1 m | no published uncertainty in this registry | A Profile of Humanity (P. Quast) |
Each row carries its own uncertainty and its own source. Where a row says no uncertainty is published, that is what the catalogue says — it is not a claim that the value is exact.
| Kind | artifact |
|---|---|
| Origin | artificial (made by humans) |
| Planetary protection | target Sol · contact class none · COSPAR category none_no_target under the policy in force at launch (none_no_target under the 2026 policy) · documentation: na_prepolicy — a DOCUMENTATION fact, never a compliance verdict |
Cherry-Red Tesla Roadster electric sports car and a space-suited mannequin strapped into the driver’s seat with David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” song looping on the car radio (along with a sign stating; “… Location: En-route to near-Ceres/ asteroid belt orbit. COSPAR 2018-017A. [A Profile of Humanity — P. Quast]
Reproduced as the source wrote it. Author-year citations link to their DOI where one is registered.
These are absences in the catalogues aggregated here, not measurements of zero, and not statements that the quantity is unknown to science:
| Database | A Profile of Humanity (P. Quast) |
|---|---|
| Authority | A Profile of Humanity: The Cultural Signature of Earth's Inhabitants — Paul E. Quast |
| Licence | Courtesy of Paul E. Quast — research compilation imported as a fetch prototype with the author's cooperation; cite the original article (Int. J. Astrobiology, doi:10.1017/S1473550418000290) and the workbook. Final license terms to be confirmed at publication. |
| How it entered | RAW snapshot via scripts/ingest-quast.ts (fetched 2026-06-10T19:17Z) |
| Snapshot | 2026-06-10 |
| Coverage | 79 transmissions (7 with a published EM spec · 72 event markers without one, nothing invented · 0 moonbounce), 111 artifacts, 10 bio-footprints; prototype of the author-site fetch (final URL pending) |
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