I would imagine it's less than 0.01, but I don't know what that speed even is?
BQ: At this speed, how long would it take for an object traveling this speed to get to:
The moon? (light: approx. 1.2 seconds)
Pluto? (light: approx: 35 minutes)
Proxima Centauri? (light: approx. 4 years)
BQ: At this speed, how long would it take for an object traveling this speed to get to:
The moon? (light: approx. 1.2 seconds)
Pluto? (light: approx: 35 minutes)
Proxima Centauri? (light: approx. 4 years)
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Currently the record for fastest man made object is held by Helios II, which was a joint US-German probe launched to study the sun. That's the reason it holds the record it's the sun's massive gravity that accelerated it to such speeds as it entered it's orbit. It's maximum recorded velocity was 252,792 km/h or 0.000234c. At this speed, it would take about 90 minutes to reach the moon, about 4 years to reach Pluto, and about 17,000 years to reach the Centauri system.
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particle accelerators produce particles with speeds very close to the speed of light.
presumably though you're asking about spacecraft propulsion. all current spacecraft travel so slowly that their speed is affected by the sun's gravity. the sun slows them down on their journey through the solar system. so their speed doesn't mean much by itself, you also need to know how far away from the sun they are, then you can work out how much more the sun will slow them down before they finally escape its gravity.
see the source for a list of spacecraft that will escape the solar system. even the fastest, voyager 1, is moving slower than the speed of the earth's orbit around the sun, which is about 30 km/sec or 0.0001 c.
presumably though you're asking about spacecraft propulsion. all current spacecraft travel so slowly that their speed is affected by the sun's gravity. the sun slows them down on their journey through the solar system. so their speed doesn't mean much by itself, you also need to know how far away from the sun they are, then you can work out how much more the sun will slow them down before they finally escape its gravity.
see the source for a list of spacecraft that will escape the solar system. even the fastest, voyager 1, is moving slower than the speed of the earth's orbit around the sun, which is about 30 km/sec or 0.0001 c.
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You don't mean "light years" since "light years" is a distance.
You mean "what fraction of the speed of light". Escape velocity from earth is 11.2 km/sec. The speed of light is 300,000 km/sec. So escape velocity is 0.000037 of the speed of light. I don't think we've sent any objects out with velocity much faster than that relative to earth. The Voyagers are moving at about 17 km/sec, so less than twice that velocity.
You mean "what fraction of the speed of light". Escape velocity from earth is 11.2 km/sec. The speed of light is 300,000 km/sec. So escape velocity is 0.000037 of the speed of light. I don't think we've sent any objects out with velocity much faster than that relative to earth. The Voyagers are moving at about 17 km/sec, so less than twice that velocity.
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