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It's overshot in the sense that the PR materials they released showed it making a perfect Mars transfer orbit. Apparently Musk said "If the third burn goes as w
by mastax 9y ago
It's overshot in the sense that the PR materials they released showed it making a perfect Mars transfer orbit. Apparently Musk said "If the third burn goes as we hope, the Tesla will get as far away as 380 to 450 million km from Earth." Their aphelion is right around 390 500 000km, so just a bit above the lower bound.
- T-hawk 9y agoDistance from Earth and solar aphelion aren't the same thing. The former will be larger by 300 million km (the diameter of Earth's orbit) when Earth is on the opposite side of the sun. It's unclear which value Musk was referring to.