Speed of the ISS at ground level

The speed of the International Space Station shown at ground level using Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020

[airplanemode]

Share this with a friend who would think this is cool ;)

[clemdemort]

This really puts into perspective how slow sound actually is, this is crazy stuff!

[jim-stacy]

its crazy to think how solid air would be at that speed

[theussmirage]

This is absolutely insane! Any vehicle traveling that fast that close to the ground would be instantly vaporized

[zach]

I think it's crazy that we as humans made an object go that fast. I bet Newton would be pretty shocked to hear we actually went fast enough to orbit Earth like he theorized back when the fastest vehicles were sailing ships.

[overforker]

This really emphasizes the fact that all an orbit is is going so fast that by the time you start to fall towards the planet, the floor just curves and you're back where you started

[Ors]

Damn imagine the air resistance at that speed at sea level

[jcb]

Manhattan came and went in less than two seconds. Ha, that’s insane!

I have seen the ISS fly over on many late night dog walks and have often wondered how fast it would be going ‘for us.’

Well, now we know. Awesome video man!

[mocko]

And it still takes 90 minutes to circle the earth! Amazing!

[kirk]

They're going so fast, they travelled back to early 2001.

[Despiser]

I looked up one late afternoon and saw what I thought was a Jet but it didn't have any vapor trail. Turned out it was the ISS. Kinda broke my brain for a few days as I came to grips with how close it actually is to us.

[Critter]

Remember how David Fravor, the F18 pilot from the Nimitz carrier battle group in 2004, saw a Tic Tac looking ufo? Well, the USS Princeton, the Spy 1 radar equipped vessel detected that object moving forty miles in about one second, but Fravor, his WSO, and wingman all saw the vehicle accelerate faster than a bullet off to their CAP point. What would that trip look like at ten thousand feet? Forty miles in one second?

[matthewpauls]

It’s crazy how you feel no sensation of moving even at unimaginable speeds.

[gamma]

I've always wanted someone to make one of these videos, the speed of the ISS and other fast objects in space is just mindblowing when put into perspective like this. I wonder what it would look like from the perspective of someone on the surface looking up and then seeing such a thing flash by.

[SatisfyingWhirlpools]

I remember watching the ISS flyby at night one time. We were in Florida, and it panned across the sky. Just a few minutes later I looked on the map of where it was and it was over NY and we could still make it out.

[Lengend-cuef]

Hey. If you can, you should try doing Voyager 1’s speed at ground level. (38, 000mph)

Great video as well!

Edit: just realized someone else suggested this. credit to @Ikari for the coming up with it first lol

[SuperScottCrawford]

Nice. I was hoping someone would do a vid like this.
Simple, yet effective.

[matthewrammig]

I love this video man! Thanks for uploading👏One idea that might be cool, is to make a video showing the ground speed with a particular vector, like New York to San Francisco or Chicago to Sydney.

[stewartross]

Brilliant! At 8:21pm tonight I just watched the ISS come up, transit across the front of my house then back down. Seeing this puts what I'm watching in perspective.

[herku]

Hey man great videos, I'd love to see a Mach 6.7 (the fastest recorded plane speed which was achieved by the X-15 A-2 aircraft) at ground level and fly-by