Spacecraft to hit at 9km/s, equivalent to over 26 times the speed of sound near sea level and nearly 50 per cent faster than Nasa’s mission.

Spacecraft to hit at 9km/s, equivalent to over 26 times the speed of sound near sea level and nearly 50 per cent faster than Nasa’s mission

  • chuckleslord@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Holy shit! China invented the speed of sound in space for this test? You’d think that’d be terrible for rockets, what with all the shit that’ll slow you down now, but it’s important that that asteroid knows what hit it.

    (This is a dumb joke about using “Mach” as a speed outside of an atmosphere)