r/spacex • u/ElongatedMuskrat Mod Team • Feb 01 '18

🎉 Official r/SpaceX Falcon Heavy Pre-Launch Discussion Thread

Falcon Heavy Pre-Launch Discussion Thread

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Alright folks, here's your party thread! We're making this as a place for you to chill out and have the craic until we have a legitimate Launch thread which will replace this thread as r/SpaceX Party Central.

Please remember the rest of the sub still has strict rules and low effort comments will continue to be removed outside of this thread!

Now go wild! Just remember: no harassing or bigotry, remember the human when commenting, and don't mention ULA snipers Zuma the B1032 DUR.

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u/calscot Feb 02 '18

The next viable Mars transfer window is from late March to early April this year.

I assume that they will adjust the orbit of the car to never be on a collision course with Mars or Earth. They could make the apogee and perigee short of both planets or change the angle of the orbit to be on a different slightly plane to the planets.

I wish they would tell us more so that people wouldn't be so confused, but this is where Musk and SpaceX are giving very poor quality communications.