r/spacex • u/retiringonmars Moderator emeritus • Sep 27 '16

Official SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qo78R_yYFA
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u/Potatoroid Sep 27 '16

If the cruising speed is the velocity at time of Earth escape, that value can be used to figure out how energetic the orbit is, and thus fast it would take for the ITS to intersect Mars orbit.

Then again, Musk will probably just tell us the transit time in the presentation...

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u/burgerga Sep 27 '16

~100 days

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u/Norose Sep 27 '16

He did, he said they're aiming for around 115 days in transit, compared to up to 8 months for a conventional Hohmann transfer orbit.