Fastest normal space speed?
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Yeah I have an engineered racing Eagle & Courier. Was asking about gravity assist.
It's cool, I found some links online, 10,600 m/s is the highest speed recorded. Was just wondering because I managed to get my T-10 up to 1720 m/s whilst 400km over a high gravity planet.
What if one is in normal space, within the sphere-of-influence of Mitterand Hollow? That's a hell of a lot of speed (remember, you're still moving relative to the parent body). I'm pretty sure that's got to be the top end speed possible. It's something north of 870,000 meters per second or something?
Great place. Just be careful dismissing your ship, the AI struggle a little bit.
Great place. Just be careful dismissing your ship, the AI struggle a little bit.
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lol @ 770% heat.
Dman! I didn't realise people were getting up past 800 !
By "gravity assist" you mean "plummet"?
Normal space as in not Supercruise or Hyperspace. Gravity is present in space as well. Not sure if serious or...
The ancient art of throwing yourself at the ground, and missing.
Eh? Does not compute; gravity doesn't care if you are in, or out of space - the force exists, regardless. Doesn't matter if you are, or aren't in super-cruise, either.
With flight assist off, you can use a planets gravity to accelerate a ship to extremely high speeds in normal space. You need a few steps to achieve this
A. Find a planet with high gravity (3g or above)
B. Drop out of orbital cruise at high altitude, around 500km, for Achernar 6 you want around 1000km
C. Disable flight assist. You can then ride down the gravity well, you will continue accelerating unless you pull out of the dive. I reached around 2000 m/s in the vid. Apparently someone has reached 10,000 m/s. I was under the impression top speed was hard limited.
[video=youtube_share;v-pCSKy5gL4]https://youtu.be/v-pCSKy5gL4[/video]
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My seriously cool post about something award for the week. Great stuff. o7!
In all fairness, that vid near the top was recorded in an early version of the game.
However, 25900? Not sure thats possible in this day and age.
However, 25900? Not sure thats possible in this day and age.
Does getting interdicted by an npc and slamming into a moon within 2 seconds, count toward honorable mention? I mean yeah I wasn't in "normal space," but I learned about gravity assist and plummet
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Thruster driven speed, yes. However with flight-assist off; you can be accelerated by gravity and AFAIK the only time you will slow down would be for any eventual collision. The question is; could a type-10 with it's plentiful hardness, survive a 10km/s free-fall into a planet?
This seems like a valid science experiment.
And same of our moon on earth, they are the same one of the reasons that the holds friction in our core
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