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    How do you calculate cruising speed of the Perserverance spacecraft?

    The earth travels around the sun at 108000 kilometer an hour. So departing earth at 39600 km/hr means that potentially you could be going at 140000 km/hr relative to the sun depending which angle you leave at. Look up "Hohmann transfer orbit earth to mars" and you might find a more detail...