SpeedrooHow fast is the rocket sled speed record?
6,416 mphAbout 10,325 km/h · Orbit
About 6,400 mph (10,000 km/h), set at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico in 2003.
That's about 180 times a red kangaroo's top speed of about 35 mph (56 km/h).
🚀6,416 mph
🌐London spinning
By speed: the rocket sled record is about 9.9× faster than London spinning.
Things about as fast
- How fast did Alan Shepard fly on the first US spaceflight?5,180 mph
- What is the Moon's escape velocity?5,324 mph
- How fast does an earthquake rupture spread along a fault?5,592 mph
- How fast does Uranus spin at its equator?5,791 mph
- How fast does Neptune spin at its equator?5,996 mph
- How fast does a geostationary satellite move?6,879 mph
- How fast was the X-43A scramjet?7,000 mph
- How fast do earthquake S-waves travel?7,829 mph
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