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Below orbit is a strange way to put it. Orbit is more speed then height. Google says it was going 1,400 mph when it was lost. Orbital speed is around 17,600 m
by hackeraccount 3y ago
Below orbit is a strange way to put it. Orbit is more speed then height. Google says it was going 1,400 mph when it was lost. Orbital speed is around 17,600 miles per hour.
The goal was something just under orbital speed.
Not that this wasn't totally amazing. Hopefully the launch pad wasn't damaged and they can crunch the data and have another test that gets further soon.
- ceejayoz 3y agoThe readout showed 20k km/hour towards the end. It was definitely near orbital speed. You might be looking at the first stage’s data. Edit: 24,124 km/hr when telemetry stopped on the stream; 15k mph.
- Kim_Bruning 3y agoA 'k km' is an Mm, so 24 Mm/h , (or 6.67 km/s , if you'd like to go full SI)
- hetman 3y agoTechnically correct but not really clear of it helps clear communication in this context. SI natives think of a "kilometre" as its own thing (in the same way one thinks about a "mile") rather than thinking about it as a thousandfold multiple of a metre.
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- martythemaniak 3y agoI think you googled the April launch. Starship was going 24000+kmh, needed 27000, it was like 20-30 seconds away from successfully inserting itself into its target orbit.
- Kubuxu 3y agoThey also weren't targeting orbit but just bellow it.
- thelittleone 3y agoIt was doing ~24,000km/h which is ~15,000mph.
- lutorm 3y agoWell the technical term is "suborbital", which literally means "below orbital". (It's the energy that's below orbital, not the height...)