Three hundred kilometres per second, what does that speed represent?
The speed of the solar wind is probably about the same as this. In other words, if a massive flare erupts on the sun at this moment and a strong solar wind breaks out, and Hawk escapes into outer space at this time, the solar wind will never catch up with Hawk.
Voyager 1, the farthest-sailing spacecraft ever built, is currently about 17.8 billion kilometres from Earth and 16 billion kilometres from Hawk. If Hawke were to set off on Hope to catch up with Voyager 1, it would take less than two years to catch up. Voyager One, on the other hand, had been in space for a full thirty-eight years.
At that speed, it would take just over two months to fly from Saturn to Earth. In the old days, it would have taken years to get th
