About 4.7 miles per second.
A space shuttle can travel at speeds of up to 17,500 miles per hour (28,160 kilometers per hour) in orbit around the Earth.
About one hour. The speed of the space shuttle can be between 18000 to 26000 miles per hour, so it can make one orbit about every hour.
Yes, both Voyager spacecraft travel much faster than the space shuttle. The space shuttle only needs to travel about 5 miles per second to achieve Low-Earth-Orbit. Voyager 1 travels at over 10 miles per second.
A space shuttle travels at an average speed of approximately 17,500 miles per hour (28,000 kilometers per hour) while in orbit around the Earth. This high speed is essential to balance the force of gravity and maintain a stable orbit.
The second space shuttle to orbit the Earth was the Space Shuttle Challenger. It completed its first mission on April 9, 1983.
A space shuttle can travel at speeds of up to 17,500 miles per hour (28,000 kilometers per hour) in orbit around the Earth.
The space shuttle traveled at speeds around 17,500 miles per hour to reach low Earth orbit. It took about 8.5 minutes for the space shuttle to reach orbit after launch.
Relative to the center of the earth or the north pole, roughly 424,000 miles for every day it's in orbit.
ANSWERIt can go into a lower orbit. In a lower orbit, it has to travel less distance each orbit, and it is catching up. ANSWERAlso, if in a lower orbit it moves faster. But, since it's a inefficient use of fuel to have to "catch up" the Shuttle is launched in such a way that it's close to the station when it arrives in orbit.
No. The space shuttle can only reach low Earth orbit.
The space shuttle traveled at an average speed of around 17,500 miles per hour (28,000 km/h) in low Earth orbit. This high speed was necessary to balance the force of gravity pulling the shuttle back toward Earth.
It depends on the altitude of the orbit it is in. When the shuttle visits the ISS it is travelling at approximately 17,000 MPH. Incidentally the shuttle is due to make its last flight later this year (2010)