I’m going to be very disappointed if the rockets top out at 65mph.
In: Planetary Science
Getting into orbit is not about going up, it’s about going sideways REALLY fast. If you throw a ball it drops to the ground a few seconds later. Imagine you could throw it so fast it went over the horizon. Now imagine you could throw it so fast that it kept going over the horizon before it would hit the ground. It would just keep going forever. To make this work you need to first get up and out of the earth’s atmosphere, so that air and wind don’t slow it down.
You COULD get to the ISS in 4 hours going straight up at 65mph, if you timed it just right. However, while you could reach it, it would be going 18,000kmph sideways. You would just be hovering still in the air, like a ball thrown straight up right at the top of its arc. It would not end well for anyone.
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