Sorry for broken english I hope you understand me 🙂
I was wondering if its possible to shoot a handheld weapon or something “easy to get” and shoot it from Earth to get the bullet to hit the oxygen free space.
Is it even possible in any way or is it near impossible?
If so can this bullet become a high risk object that could damage or even destroy satellites once its in space?
Did we ever launch something to space without propelling it all the way up there? (once propelled on earth it doesnt get any more help flying up there)
In: Physics
The velocity needed to get outside the atmosphere from the ground surface is around 11.2km/s, or mach 33.
As far as I know, there is no gun capable of shooting a bullet at Mach 33. The fastest is only Mach 6.
Even if you had that kind of speed, the bullet would likely disintegrate due to the massive resistive force from the air at such a high speed.
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