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Re:Falcon Heavy Demonstration Mission [pdf] by apeace on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @01:13PM (#16318118)
> Following launch, Falcon Heavy’s second stage will attempt to place the Roadster into a precessing Earth-Mars elliptical orbit around the sun.
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Re:Falcon Heavy Demonstration Mission [pdf] by ogre_magi on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @01:21PM (#16318183)
That's not Mars orbit. It's an orbit around the sun with perihelion ~1AU (distance the Earth orbits) and aphelion ~1.5AU (distance Mars orbits [avg]).
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