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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: Do rockets like SpaceX Falcon Heavy actually reach speeds of approx 17, 500 mph?
« on: February 15, 2018, 06:20:17 PM »A Physics 122 class presentation states the ISS is @ 226 km.
The state of university edumacation...
Geez, I wonder what their free-body diagram of the ISS would look like....
Any rocket surgeons here willing to tackle that one?
Beyond the typo in the presentation, would you mind telling us the maximum altitude an object can reach and the max speed an object can travel?
It depends on how much fuel you can stuff in it. Technically there is no upper limit save the speed of light, though the law of diminishing returns will make your rocket have to be exponentially bigger after a few orders of magnitude.