Sentence examples for kilometer per second from inspiring English sources

Zang, commenting on the Nature Nanotechnology paper, adds: "A bottleneck of skyrmion study is to reach a size of smaller than 20 nanometers [the size of state-of-art memory unit], and drive its motion with speed beyond one kilometer per second.

Toennies and his colleagues start with a jet of helium atoms spurting out of a fine nozzle at 1 kilometer per second.

Garnaev is about to take me to the edge of space at upwards of two-and-a-half times the speed of sound almost a kilometer per second.

In the hypervelocity impact facility, a high-powered gas gun will shoot projectiles toward targets at the rate of up to a kilometer per second to test the effectiveness, for example, of protective materials such as vests and glass.

These may also be compared with galactic hydroxyl masers, which typically have linewidths of order a kilometer per second or narrower, and are spread over a velocity of a few to tens of kilometers per second.

To test whether water and organic compounds could survive the high pressures and high temperatures of a collision, Blank and her colleagues worked for three years to design a steel capsule that would not rupture when hit with a mile-per-second (1.6 kilometer-per-second) bullet fired from an 80-mm bore cannon at the University of Chicago and later at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

A 16.5-kilometer-per-second dash through the gas and dust continually blown off a comet nucleus was a risky bonus.

The researchers found that the dips were all shifted to slightly shorter wavelengths--proof the gas was flowing away from the black hole in a 500-kilometer-per-second wind.

CMEs emerging from sunspots located at latitudes of 60˚ or higher, north and south, can have their tracks bent by the sun's magnetic field and pushed out toward the planets by the 500-kilometer-per-second solar wind.

It's always quantified as a speed-per-unit-distance, which is typically given in kilometers-per-second (the speed) per Megaparsec (the distance), where a Megaparsec is about 3.26 million light years.

Generally, that velocity is some hundreds of kilometers per second.