velocity

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“We are trying to heal that velocity that we had in the past year. If you go so fast, you’re going to crash,” Paco Amoroso told Billboard in February.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

In that scenario, a spacecraft would strike the object and slightly alter its velocity.

From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026

They use gyroscopes to measure acceleration in any direction and integrate changes in velocity using a computer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

The fear is that sustained higher oil prices could feed back into inflation, just as many parts of the world thought they were finally achieving escape velocity.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 4, 2026

"That'll get the intercept range to zero, but the intercept velocity will be forty-two meters per second."

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir