How long does a rocket take to reach the sun from the earth?

Answer 1

it takes a matter of minutes. The shuttle takes 8-9 minutes to reach space.

Answer 2

The Earth is about 93 million miles away from the Sun, in a not-quite circular orbit. The surface of the Sun is about 11,000 degrees, hot enough to vaporize any material, so we don't actually want to go to the Sun.

If we wanted to send a probe into the Sun with our current technologies, it would take about 18 months to get it there, As our spacefaring abilities improve, I'm sure we could whittle this down to a matter of a couple of months.

Light from the Sun gets to Earth in 8 minutes 20 seconds.

Answer 3

A rocket traveling from Earth to the Sun would take a significant amount of time due to the vast distance between the two celestial bodies. The average distance between the Earth and the Sun is about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers). A rocket traveling at the speed of light, which is about 186,282 miles per second (299,792 kilometers per second), would take approximately 8 minutes and 20 seconds to reach the Sun. However, current spacecraft technology is not capable of achieving such speeds, so a realistic estimate for a rocket to reach the Sun would be several months to years, depending on the speed and trajectory of the spacecraft.

Answer 4

It would take a rocket traveling at Earth's escape velocity of about 11.2 km/s approximately 19-20 years to reach the sun, which is about 149.6 million kilometers away. However, the technology to send a rocket to the sun does not currently exist.

Answer 5

That depends on the speed, of course. Pick a suitable speed, then divide the distance (150 million kilometers) by that speed. If the speed is in kilometers per hour, the result will be in hours.

Answer 6

Depends on the speed, of course. The Sun's diameter is about 1.4 million km.; multiply that by pi and you get about 4.4 million km. for the circumference. Divide that by a comfortable walking speed of 5 km/hour, i.e., not much of a hurry, that gives you approximately 880,000 hours, or 36,600 days, or about 100 years.

Answer 7

That depends on how fast your rocket goes and what specific path is taken. The Sun is about 400 times further away than the Moon and the Apollo missions got to the Moon in about 3-4 days, if that helps.

If you were to "drop" something into the Sun from a point on Earth's orbit with its motion only influenced by the Sun's gravitational pull, it would take about 64 days to fall. (Kepler's third law gives it an orbital period of about 129 days, but since the Sun isn't an idealized geometrical point, it won't be coming back.)

Answer 8

Since we haven't been there (or even come close) yet, this is hard to answer. The center of the Earth is about 4000 miles down; the deepest hole ever drilled is less than 8 miles and we're not likely to get much further anytime soon.

Answer 9

Like any other trip, that would depend on how fast you travel, and on the route you take.

If you traveled at the speed of light in a straight line, it would take 81/3 minutes.

If you traveled at 100 mph in a Hohmann transfer orbit, it would take something like 350 years.

Answer 10

The shuttle is in orbit, meaning that its speed is about 18,000 mph. The Sun is 93,000,000 miles away. So, a bit over 5,000 hours or 200+ days. The Sun's kind of hot for visiting, though, better go at night.