It takes the Hubble space telescope about 90min to complete one orbit. How fast is it traveling?
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It takes the Hubble Space Telescope about 90 minutes to make one complete orbit. How fast is it traveling?
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It takes the Hubble Space Telescope about 90 minutes to make one complete orbit. How fast is it traveling?
January 30th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
about 18,000 mph
February 1st, 2009 at 5:07 am
about 17,500MPH
February 3rd, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Multiply half the radius of its orbit by pi and divide that by the number of hours it takes to orbit.
I know, math is hard!
February 4th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
that depends on what it’s orbiting and the distance of it’s travel…