06.02.2018 - 18:31 [ Space.com ]

SpaceX‘s First Falcon Heavy Rocket to Launch 4th Electric Car to Leave Earth

If the stage survives the „grand tour“ of the Van Allen belts and successfully fires its engine for a third time, then the Tesla will leave Earth on a journey to out where Mars circles the sun.

„It will go out to Mars orbit,“ said Musk, „about 400 million kilometers from Earth, about 250 to 270 million miles, and be doing 11 kilometers per second [7 miles per second].“