Sentence examples for mile per second from inspiring English sources

Mach 5 is about a mile per second, or 3,600 m.p.h. at sea level.

The speed of these waves is about 1.5 km (0.9 mile) per second, the speed of sound in water.

In each cell an outward flow of 0.3 km (0.2 mile) per second sweeps the magnetic fields to the edges, where there are jets and eruptions.

Because the V-2 traveled at an altitude of 60 miles and a speed of one mile per second, faster than the speed of sound, there was no warning of its approach.

What makes E.F.P.'s so deadly is that they form "slugs" at detonation that maintain their shape over distances of over 100 yards or more, traveling at speeds of nearly a mile per second.

Musk and SpaceX hope that their experimental Falcon 9 rockets will be the first rockets to be able to safely land on Earth thanks to thrusters, which – in theory – could slow the rocket down from nearly a mile per second down to a parked position.

That's 2,144.83 miles per hour, or six-tenths of a mile per second--think ten football fields every second!

It was, if memory serves, 17 miles per second.

Altair rotates at the fast speed of more than 200 km (120 miles) per second.

It increases to about 11 km (6.8 miles) per second near the centre of the Earth.

The expansion speed of the gas is typically 30 km (19 miles) per second.