Spacecraft Speed and Orbital Velocity

NASA’s Space Launch System can propel payloads at up to an incredible 17,500 mph; Voyager probes that have received gravity assist travel even faster. Recently, the Parker Solar Probe became the fastest human-made object when it approached within 4 million miles of the sun’s surface with Venus providing gravity assistance. But how fast exactly was […]

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