St. Ignatius Area | We are a small Real Estate company located in St. Ignatius Montana. We represent buyers & sellers from all over the Mission Valley in Northwest Montana such as these areas; Arlee, Charlo, Dixon, Ronan, Pablo, Polson, Elmo, Frenchtown, Evaro, Missoula, Big Arm, Big Fork, Hot Springs, Saint Ignatius & more.
How fast does a spaceship travel in Earth's orbit and is there a sense of speed? The international space station (taken as an example) orbits earth once every 92 minutes and travels at over 17,000 mph relative to the earths surface.
Consider the speed of light. Light, the fastest thing known, takes only 8 minutes to travel to us from the sun, but requires more than four years to get to the nearest star. A handgun bullet travels at 720 miles per hour, but would take nearly 4 million years to get to the nearest star. The fastest object ever launched into space is the Voyager 1 probe, and it would take nearly 75,000 years to make the trip. Todayâs chemical rockets are far too slow for interstellar travel. To have a hope of reaching the closest star in less than a hundred years, we would have to accelerate a starship to nearly 30 million mph.