How long will it take to reach Venus travelling at a rate of 17500 miles per hour?

Answer 1

To get to Venus in a modern space rocket would take about 2/3 of a year, or longer. The first dude to send a shuttle to Venus took a year and a half but they sucked with technology back then. However, I read that if you just floated through space to Venus, at around 2 miles per hour, it would still take around a year, because the gravity would carry you all over the place, and the first place it would pull you would be Venus. I dunno why

Answer 2

Assuming we use the closest distance that Venus gets to Earth (23.7 million miles), it would take you more than a month to get there at 30,000 mph. (And that does not include the time needed to launch and accelerate to, and then decelerate from, 30,000 mph).

Answer 3

Mercury is about 57,000,000 km from the Sun, Earth is ~150,000,000 km from the Sun, so the distance from the Earth to Mercury is 150,000,000 - 57,000,000 ~ 93,000,000 km

30,000 mph x 1.61 km/mile = 48,300 km/hr

93,000,000 km / 48300 km/hr ~ 1,925hrs x 1 day/24hours ~ 80 days as the space crow flies BUT because it is orbiting the Sun so fast (it's year is 87 days) you would need to catch it as it approaches Earth (leave 7 days into it's year, that is after it passes Earth, get to the planet at it's closest in 80 days.)

Note: the exact actual answer depends on where the 2 planets are/the date - the distances vary during the year. If it is on the far side of the Sun, Mercury is 57,000,000 + 150,000,000 km or 207,000,000 miles .. a whole lot further than when it is closest to Earth. Then it would take: 207,000,000 / 48300 km/hr ~ 4,285 hrs or ~179 days ...

Answer 4

The distance between Earth and Venus varies greatly and constantly. It is important to understand that the proximity of the two planets depends on their relative positions in their individual orbits. The closest point of the two planets is called opposition. The distance between the planets can vary greatly at different oppositions. The closest opposition between Earth and Venus is 38 million kilometers (23,612,105.220 miles). The greatest distance between the two planets is 261 million kilometers (162177880.59 miles).

Figuring this distance is your first variable. There are many more.

Additionally, you need to calculate mass of the vehicle with passengers(?), supplies, fuel--total payload. This is where it gets messy. The further you need to travel, the more fuel you will need to carry, the greater the mass of your vehicle, the more fuel you will need, the greater your mass, the more fuel you will need--see the dilemma?

Also, you will need to calculate speed, and projected movement of the two planets, relative to each other.

The Soviets were the first to land a probe on the surface of Venus. Venera 7 was launched 17 August 1970 at 05:38 UTC and landed 2 days shy of four months later on 15 December 1970 at 05:34 UTC, a total flight time of 120 days 23 hours fifty-six minutes. The total payload was 1180 kilograms.

Answer 5

The distance between Earth and Venus can vary quite a lot. Take the longest distance, the shortest distance, or some other desired distance in between (in miles), and then divide that by the speed specified - the answer will be in hours.Actually it gets a bit more complicated... To save fuel, spacecraft usually don't travel along the shortest route to a planet.

Answer 6

It is hard to tell. The distance to Venus varies greatly according to whether Earth and Venus are on the same or opposite sides of the Sun. Just as important, space craft never ever travel in a straight line from the Earth to its destination. What they do is use an intermediate object like the moon, and use its gravity to gain acceleration from a slingshot action.

Answer 7

It would take 9,257 hours to reach Venus from Earth. This is equivalent to about 386 days, or just a little over one year.

Answer 8

At an average distance of about 143 million miles, it would take about 4,766 hours and 40 minutes at 30,000 mph. This equates to about 6.5 months.

Answer 9

At it's closest approach, Venus is about 41 million km away, so 205 hours, or 8 and a half days. ■

Answer 10

12 years

and 6 days