how fast can spaceship go?

Most manned ones go around 17,000 MPH, though the fastest manned one went 24,970 MPH.

If unmanned, satellites have gone up to 40,000 MPH before (an example being New Horizons, which is headed towards Pluto).

The shuttle usually operates at an orbital altitude of between 200 and 350

miles (careful! NASA often uses nautical miles for shuttle statistics),

depending on what the mission and payload requirements for the flight are.

A circular orbit at these heights implies an orbital speed of about 17,000

miles per hour. If the orbit is elliptical, the speed will be slightly

higher, but not by much.

Wolfe is exactly right. The space shuttle goes orbital speed, about 17,500 MPH, The Apollo missions went at escape velocity, about 25,000 MPH, and the fastest unmanned planetary space craft was launched at 40,000 MPH. That is the speed leaving Earth. If you measure the speed as seen from the Sun though it is totally different. Earth is orbiting the Sun at 66,000 MPH, so if that 40,000 space craft left Earth going in the same direction as the Earth is orbiting then it is going 106,000 MPH as seen from the Sun. And that space craft, while it is sitting motionless on the launch pad is going around the Sun at 66,000, just like you and I are now.

Chemical rockets are limited in top speed by the speed of their exhaust gas. Their practical limit is somewhere around 40,000 - 50,000 miles per hour.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory developed a nuclear fission powered rocket engine many decades ago that would go about twice that fast. We were to scared of a crash to actually try to fly it.

quickest spacecraft as much as now has been Helios I and II. Reached speeds real around a hundred and fifty,000 MPH. quickest manned spacecraft (spaceship) became Apollo 10 precise velocity of roughly 24,760 MPH for the duration of re-get right of entry to.

Voyager the satellite left the solar system and to do that it has to travel at

37 356.8361 mph

Fast eh?

well in order to overcome the Earths gravity which is called the escape velocity, you would have to be traveling about 25,000 mph.

42,000 ft per sec.

A good 3000mph, I'd have though.

really fast.

google it.