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  2. Speed and rate of climb - Wikipedia

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    In aeronautics, the rate of climb (RoC) is an aircraft's vertical speed, that is the positive or negative rate of altitude change with respect to time. [1] In most ICAO member countries, even in otherwise metric countries, this is usually expressed in feet per minute (ft/min); elsewhere, it is commonly expressed in metres per second (m/s).

  3. Roche limit - Wikipedia

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    The varying orbital speed of the material eventually causes it to form a ring. In celestial mechanics , the Roche limit , also called Roche radius , is the distance from a celestial body within which a second celestial body, held together only by its own force of gravity , will disintegrate because the first body's tidal forces exceed the ...

  4. Light-year - Wikipedia

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    A value of 9.460 536 207 × 10 15 m found in some modern sources [15] [16] is the product of a mean Gregorian year (365.2425 days or 31 556 952 s) and the defined speed of light (299 792 458 m/s). Another value, 9.460 528 405 × 10 15 m, [17] is the product of the J1900.0 mean tropical year and the defined speed of light.

  5. Escape velocity - Wikipedia

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    Escape speed at a distance d from the center of a spherically symmetric primary body (such as a star or a planet) with mass M is given by the formula [2] [3] = = where: G is the universal gravitational constant (G ≈ 6.67 × 10 −11 m 3 ⋅kg −1 ⋅s −2 ‍ [4])

  6. Orbital speed - Wikipedia

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    In gravitationally bound systems, the orbital speed of an astronomical body or object (e.g. planet, moon, artificial satellite, spacecraft, or star) is the speed at which it orbits around either the barycenter (the combined center of mass) or, if one body is much more massive than the other bodies of the system combined, its speed relative to the center of mass of the most massive body.

  7. Scaled Composites Stratolaunch - Wikipedia

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    Higher-speed taxi tests began in 2018, reaching 40 knots (74 km/h) in February, [21] and 78 knots (144 km/h) in October. [22] On January 9, 2019, Stratolaunch completed a 110 knots (200 km/h) taxi test, and released a photograph of the nose landing gear lifted off the ground during the test.

  8. Galactic year - Wikipedia

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    The Solar System is traveling at an average speed of 230 km/s (828,000 km/h) or 143 mi/s (514,000 mph) within its trajectory around the Galactic Center, [3] a speed at which an object could circumnavigate the Earth's equator in 2 minutes and 54 seconds; that speed corresponds to approximately 1/1300 of the speed of light.

  9. Orders of magnitude (speed) - Wikipedia

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    Speed of International Space Station and typical speed of other satellites such as the Space Shuttle in low Earth orbit. 7,777: 28,000: 17,400: 2.594 × 10 −5: Speed of propagation of the explosion in a detonating cord. 10 4: 10,600 38,160 23,713.65 0.00004 Speed of propagation of the explosion of Octanitrocubane (ONC). 11,107: 39,985.2: ...