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> To put it into perspective, Voyager 1 has a current speed of 17 kilometers per second And the Earth has 30 km/s, yet we don't get Voyager "for free" and then
by CydeWeys 7y ago
> To put it into perspective, Voyager 1 has a current speed of 17 kilometers per second
And the Earth has 30 km/s, yet we don't get Voyager "for free" and then some just from LEO. You can't compare speeds in different parts of the gravity well against each other because then you're ignoring the dv required to get from here to there.