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  2. Parker Solar Probe - Wikipedia

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    [7] [9] It is the fastest object ever built on Earth. [10] The project was announced in the fiscal 2009 budget year. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory designed and built the spacecraft, [11] which was launched on 12 August 2018. [2]

  3. Orders of magnitude (speed) - Wikipedia

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    Atmospheric entry speed of the Galileo atmospheric probe—Fastest controlled atmospheric entry for a human-made object. 66,000: 240,000: 150,000 0.00022: Lower speed bound of the steel plate cap from the Pascal-B nuclear test of Operation Plumbbob. [26] [circular reference] 70,220: 252,800: 157,100 0.00023: Speed of the Helios 2 solar probe ...

  4. Fastest man-made object - Wikipedia

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  5. Nasa to fly world’s fastest object closer to the Sun than ...

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    Nasa is flying the fastest human-made object ever made closer to the Sun than anything has ever been before.. The space agency hopes that the Parker Solar Probe can get to the heart of many of the ...

  6. Atmospheric entry - Wikipedia

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    The Stardust sample-return capsule was the fastest man-made object ever to reenter Earth's atmosphere, at 28,000 mph (ca. 12.5 km/s) at 135 km altitude. This was faster than the Apollo mission capsules and 70% faster than the Shuttle. [1] PICA was critical for the viability of the Stardust mission, which returned to Earth in 2006.

  7. Speed - Wikipedia

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    Fastest heliocentric recession speed of any humanmade object. [10] (11 mi/s) Average orbital speed of planet Earth around the Sun: 29 783: 97 713: 107 218: 66 623: The fastest recorded speed of the Helios probes: 70,220: 230,381: 252,792: 157,078: Recognized as the fastest speed achieved by a man-made spacecraft, achieved in solar orbit.

  8. Orion Griffin: Today in history: The fastest man alive - AOL

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    At 65,589 feet, Apt beat all previous records speed records, reaching Mach 3 (2,094 miles per hour). He was the fastest flying man alive and would hold the record until 1961, when the X-15 reached ...

  9. Noah Lyles is the world’s fastest man — thanks in ... - AOL

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    Team USA's Noah Lyles took the gold in the men’s 100-meter final at the Paris Olympics — by five thousandths of a second. Lyles, who won Sunday with a time of 9.784 seconds, came out just ...