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  2. Geostationary orbit - Wikipedia

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    A geostationary orbit can be achieved only at an altitude very close to 35,786 kilometres (22,236 miles) and directly above the equator. This equates to an orbital speed of 3.07 kilometres per second (1.91 miles per second) and an orbital period of 1,436 minutes, one sidereal day.

  3. Design speed - Wikipedia

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    The highest design speed for a road or segment is the design speed of its least favorable part. For example, given a road segment with a 60 miles per hour (97 km/h) design speed except for a curve with a 45 miles per hour (72 km/h) design speed, the entire segment would have a 45 miles per hour (72 km/h) design speed. The road may have a 45 ...

  4. Kármán line - Wikipedia

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    Kincheloe flew 2000 miles per hour (3,200 km/h) at 126,000 feet (38,500 m), or 24 miles up. At this altitude and speed, aerodynamic lift still carries 98 percent of the weight of the plane, and only two percent is carried by inertia, or Kepler force, as space scientists call it. But at 300,000 feet (91,440 m) or 57 miles up, this relationship ...

  5. Orbital speed - Wikipedia

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    In gravitationally bound systems, the orbital speed of an astronomical body or object (e.g. planet, moon, artificial satellite, spacecraft, or star) is the speed at which it orbits around either the barycenter (the combined center of mass) or, if one body is much more massive than the other bodies of the system combined, its speed relative to the center of mass of the most massive body.

  6. Speed limit - Wikipedia

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    The speed limit will also take note of the speed at which the road was designed to be driven (the design speed), which is defined in the US as "a selected speed used to determine the various geometric design features of the roadway". [148]

  7. Geometrized unit system - Wikipedia

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    A geometrized unit system [1] or geometrodynamic unit system is a system of natural units in which the base physical units are chosen so that the speed of light in vacuum, c, and the gravitational constant, G, are set equal to unity. = = The geometrized unit system is not a completely defined system.

  8. Orders of magnitude (speed) - Wikipedia

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    Speed of International Space Station and typical speed of other satellites such as the Space Shuttle in low Earth orbit. 7,777: 28,000: 17,400: 2.594 × 10 −5: Speed of propagation of the explosion in a detonating cord. 10 4: 10,600 38,160 23,713.65 0.00004 Speed of propagation of the explosion of Octanitrocubane (ONC). 11,107: 39,985.2: ...

  9. Geographical mile - Wikipedia

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    When each equatorial degree was divided into 18 leagues, the geographical mile was equal to ⁠ 1 / 54 ⁠ degree or about 2.06 kilometres (1.28 mi); when divided into 20 leagues, the geographical mile was equal to ⁠ 1 / 60 ⁠ degree, approximating the values provided above; and when divided into 25 leagues, the geographical mile was equal ...