The Tesla itself overshot Mars's orbit which was the original plan and is now hurtling towards the asteroid belt. Live coverage from an onboard camera is still streaming on YouTube (see above).
Accept and continue Dr Hanno Rein and colleagues, ran a computer simulation 240 times to understand how the Tesla's orbit would evolve over the course of 3.5 million years. "We did not know what ...
It will be carrying [Elon Musk]’s red Tesla Roadster, and should it be a successful launch, it will place the car in an elliptical orbit round the Sun that will take it to the Martian orbit at ...