17,580 MPH
Yes, both Voyager spacecraft travel much faster than the space shuttle. The space shuttle only needs to travel about 5 miles per second to achieve Low-Earth-Orbit. Voyager 1 travels at over 10 miles per second.
Answer The speed in orbit is around 17500 miles an hour.
2,288 miles per hour
It has to be going at least 17,500 miles per hour to overcome earth's gravity, so it's at least that much.
space shuttle orbiters are launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. They must not only travel the ~250 miles to reach "space", they must accelerate to over 17,000 mph to maintain orbit around the Earth. The shuttle orbiter uses its 3 main engines along with a pair of solid rocket boosters to do this.
About 8,750 miles.
Relative to the center of the earth or the north pole, roughly 424,000 miles for every day it's in orbit.
Yes, both Voyager spacecraft travel much faster than the space shuttle. The space shuttle only needs to travel about 5 miles per second to achieve Low-Earth-Orbit. Voyager 1 travels at over 10 miles per second.
Answer The speed in orbit is around 17500 miles an hour.
24,906 miles
2,288 miles per hour
It has to be going at least 17,500 miles per hour to overcome earth's gravity, so it's at least that much.
space shuttle orbiters are launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. They must not only travel the ~250 miles to reach "space", they must accelerate to over 17,000 mph to maintain orbit around the Earth. The shuttle orbiter uses its 3 main engines along with a pair of solid rocket boosters to do this.
First, the Moon is about 240,000 miles from Earth. Second, the Shuttle couldn't go there on a bet. If you are talking about an average speed of 12,000 miles an hour, then obviously the answer is 20 hours to go 240,000.
About 4.7 miles per second.
66,600
It all depends on the speed with which an object is moving. e.g. In lower earth orbit space shuttle moves with the speed of 4.8 miles per sec. So with such a speed the shuttle takes only 4.16 seconds.