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The Space Travel Time calculator computes how long it would take to travel a user specified distance in space Our Solar System at various speeds. The speed include real and theoretical (Warp Speeds).
INSTRUCTIONS: Choose the following:
- (SV) Space Velocity (choose from list of space travel velocities. See Below)
- (D) Space Distance
Space Travel Time (STT): The calculator returns the time it will take to travel the distance at the chosen velocity.
The velocity choices are:
- 100 mph
- 500 mph
- MACH 1
- 1000 mph
- MACH 2
- MACH 3
- MACH
- 10,9600 mph
- 28000 km/h (Space Shuttle speed)
- Full Impulse (Star Trek: .25⋅ c = 269813212.2 km/h)
- WARP 1 = light speed (299792458 m/s)
- WARP 2 (Star Trek: 8,634,022,790 km/h)
- WARP 3 (Star Trek: 29,139,826,918 km/h)
- WARP 4 (Star Trek: 69,072,182,323 km/h)
- WARP 5 (Star Trek: 134,906,606,100 km/h)
- WARP 6 (Star Trek: 233,118,615,341 km/h)
- WARP 7 (Star Trek: 370,183,727,138 km/h)
- WARP 8 (Star Trek: 552,577,458,586 km/h)
- WARP 9 (Star Trek: 786,775,326,775 km/h)
- WARP 9.9 (Star Trek: 1,047,197,959,938 km/h)
See warp speed (Star Trek). The distances between the Earth and the objects within the solar system assume the shortest distances possible between the objects when their orbits are aligned on the same side of the sun.
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Fun Stuff
The Star Trek speeds are based on two formulas. First, Full Impulse power is one fourth (.25) of the speed of light. Second, WARP SPEED velocity is equal to WARP Milk Way Galaxy and location of the Suncubed times the speed of light.
Velocity = w³ • C
where:
- w is WARP Speed.
Therefore, WARP 1 is the speed of light, WARP 2 is eight (2³) the speed of light, WARP 3 is twenty seven (3³) times the speed of light, and so on, according to some STAR TREK blogs.
See Also
- Physics 100 - Motion and Force equations
- Physics Circular Motion - Circular motion equations
Acknowledgement
Images of the Milky Way galaxy and the Solar System are from Wikipedia and shared under the Creative Commons Licensing Agreement