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Elon Musk didn’t just send his biggest-rocket-ever into space today. His SpaceX crew also loaded the Tesla CEO’s very own cherry-red Roadster into the vehicle as a piece of payload that may one day serve as an extraterrestrial talisman from the would-be king of the electric car.

So what exactly will be happen to the Roadster now that it’s been lifted into space?

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That’s right. The Tesla’s getting a one-way ticket to infinity. No turning back. This is, of course, assuming that the rocket doesn’t explode at some point along the voyage, causing the Roadster to disintegrate in space.

As Verge reported after Musk’s pre-launch press conference call, “the Roadster will be sent on a wide orbit around Mars. Musk revealed a new wrinkle in this plan on the call: Instead of separating the car from the rocket’s upper stage shortly after leaving Earth’s atmosphere, the upper stage (and the car aboard it) will instead enter a six-hour ‘coast’ through the Van Allen radiation belts.”

The report says Musk’s goal is “to demonstrate a new capability to the Air Force and other potential military customers. But it comes with some risk. ”[The rocket stage is] going to experience a lot of radioactivity and high energy particles. It’s going to get whacked pretty hard,” Musk said. ”The fuel could freeze, and the oxygen could be vaporize, all of which could inhibit the third burn which is necessary for [the Tesla’s] trans-Mars injection.”

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“It’s not totally clear what those cameras might capture, though,” says the report. “Maybe we’ll see a closer-than-planned pass of Mars, or an unplanned reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere. Most likely it will just be footage of the inky blackness of space, perhaps with our speck of a home planet in the background. We’ll all have to watch to find out.”