humans have never killed their dreams of traveling and knowing more about the universe but all these
travels have to be aided by a spacecraft that can travel faster to the diversity of the universe
from spacecraft that travel at 500 times the speed of sound to spacecraft that have traveled
15 billion miles away from the earth here are the fastest spacecraft ever made by man
parker solar probe nothing built by human hands has ever traveled faster than nasa's parker
solar probe a diminutive scorch-proof spacecraft about the size of a small car that is practically
touching the sun nasa's parker solar probe which launched in 2018 has set two records
at once the closest spacecraft to the sun and the fastest speed spacecraft the probe made
its closest pass yet to the sun a little more than 10 million kilometers from its surface
during the time of closest approach it was traveling at about 163 kilometers per second
or 365 000 miles per hour at this rate it would take about 4.5 minutes to cover the
entire circumference of earth or around 40 minutes to fly from earth to the moon
yet this might not be the end of its maximum speed in 2025 the probe is expected to travel
at speed of 200 kilometer per second and get close to the sun as little as seven million kilometers
helio spacecraft satellites the first of two satellites designed to study the sun
the two helios satellites broke all spacecraft's speed records
and flew closer to the sun than even the planet mercury
nasa helios ii space probe set a record speed of 157 078 miles per hour during the mission
helios ii launched on january 15 1976. it reached the orbit of sun on april 17 1976. the space probe
sent back data about solar plasma solar dust cosmic rays and the electrical field to earth
until december 23 1979 both helios 1 and helios 2 space probes still remain in the orbit of the sun
juno spacecraft juno is a nasa space probe orbiting the planet jupiter
the spacecraft was launched from cape canaveral air force station on august 5th
2011 as part of the new frontiers program juno entered a polar orbit of jupiter on july 5th 2016
to begin a scientific investigation of the planet
after completing its mission juno will be intentionally de-orbited into jupiter's atmosphere
during its travel jupiter's gravity accelerated
the approaching spacecraft to travel at a speed of around 130 000 miles per hour
galileo spacecraft galileo was an american robotic space probe that
studied the planet jupiter and its moons as well as the asteroids gaspara and ida
named after the italian astronomer galileo galilei it consisted of an orbiter and an entry pro
galileo arrived at jupiter on december 7 1995 at a speed of 107 955 miles per hour
voyager 1. voyager 1 is the farthest traveled man-made object to date
this space probe was launched back in 1977 with the mission of study about the outer solar system
on august 25th 2013 nasa voyager once successfully entered the interstellar space
during the mission the voyager 1 space probe attained a maximum speed of 38 610 miles per
hour it also covered a record distance of 520 million kilometers every year and is now about
15 billion miles away from the earth voyager 1 space probe will continue the mission until 2025
new horizons nasa launched the new horizons spacecraft in 2006.
the mission's objective is to learn more about pluto and its satellites a successful 7800 mile
flight around pluto was achieved by this probe on july 14 2015. in this way new horizons is
the first mission to investigate the dwarf planet pluto since the end of the 1960s
the spacecraft was launched on january 19 2006 by the united launch alliance on the other hand
when it launched it did so with the fastest launch speed ever achieved by a space probe
clocking in at 36 373 miles per hour a large part of what allows the new horizon space mission to
launch at such a blistering pace is the use of mono propellants and gravitational helpers
stardust anything designed to collect samples of a comet has to be designed for speed
stardust was a special space probe launched by nasa in 1999
the goal of this mission was to collect samples from comet wild 2 for laboratory analysis
this 300 kilogram robotic probe attained a maximum speed of 28 856 miles per hour during that mission
which was 36 times faster than the speed of sound stardust was designed to catch up to a
comet collect a sample and then return to that sample to earth which it did in 2006
during the mission stardust traveled 2 billion miles to meet with the comet wild 2.
the inbuilt rockets on the space probe powers it to make a swing in space to reach the comet
apollo 10 capsule the apollo 10 mission of may 1969 saw the fastest manned craft ever
apollo 10 was a rehearsal mission by nasa before lunar landing during the return journey on may
26 1969 the apollo 10 capsule acquired a blazing speed of 24 791 miles per hour
discovery space shuttle space shuttle discovery held the record of a maximum number of successful
missions than any other spacecraft in the history the spacecraft has made 30 successful flights
since 1984. it also held a record speed of 17 400 miles per hour that is five times faster
than the speed of a bullet sometimes spacecrafts have to travel faster than the normal speed of
seventeen thousand miles per hour such conditions depend on the orbit and altitude of spacecraft
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