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According to SpaceX, the orbit could potentially last for a billion years if the timings work out.
by skykooler 9y ago
According to SpaceX, the orbit could potentially last for a billion years if the timings work out.
- JumpCrisscross 9y agoSource? I was poking around for the orbit's parameters last night...
- thaumaturgy 9y agoIt was mentioned in the livestream.
- dmix 9y agoThey mentioned in during the primary live test flight feed. The female broadcaster said it during the explanation around the 10-14min to launch mark
- skykooler 9y agohttps://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/05/spacex-falcon-heavy-launch-at-the-end-of-january-elon-musk-says.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/05/spacex-falcon-heavy-launch-a...
- julien_c 9y agoSomeone has a GIF (or explanation) of the Earth-Mars Orbit?
- ajnin 9y agoThe car is on an elliptic heliocentric orbit that crosses the Earth orbit at its perihelion and crosses Mars' orbit at its aphelion. It is not in orbit around either planet.
- SAI_Peregrinus 9y agoIt's a Hohmann transfer orbit. It will be orbiting the sun, with a periapsis (point of closest approach) at Earth's orbit an apoapsis at Mars's orbit. It's not going to circularize at Mars, and indeed will intersect Mars orbit quite a ways behind Mars. TL;DR: Elliptical solar orbit.