Falcon Heavy to launch next month from Apollo 11 pad at the Cape. Will have double thrust of next largest rocket. Guaranteed to be exciting, one way or another.Payload will be my midnight cherry Tesla Roadster playing Space Oddity. Destination is Mars orbit. Will be in deep space for a billion years or so if it doesn’t blow up on ascent.
If we assume that the upper stage can sustain itself with minimal boil off, here's one idea on how to construct a tesla mission. Launch in Dec/Jan/Feb. Linger in a elliptical parking orbit around the Earth until May. Fire engines in May.
Is S2 cannot be used for Mars Orbit injection, then what?Hohmann transfer orbit window to Mars begins only in March and runs through June, 2018. A January launch will not be an ideal trajectory, but it may be possible to send the Tesla on a different orbit, perhaps with a turn around another planet, that will arrive at Mars slowly enough for a gravity capture in a high, eccentric orbit.
Is S2 cannot be used for Mars Orbit injection, then what?>