How do you come to a complete stop on a single point in our orbit?

Question

Given that we are traveling through space at 40,000kmh and roatating at 1,000mph how do you stop?

Answer 1

Well technically, once you come to a stop, you arent in orbit.

Your just hovering over whatever you were orbiting, and then you will fall at it.

Also, your questions numbers make no sense.

What do you mean rotating at 1,000mph?

Do you mean you are changing attitude and your rotation is 1,000 mph? In which case what is the radius of the spinning object and why is it relivant? Also, decide on your units and stick to them.

40,000 km/h is roughly 11km/s.....so your either orbiting the sun at a fair distance or one of the outer planets, either way, bad place to go and stop.....

Answer 2

Hit the brakes, obviously.

Answer 3

your first answer is correct,

the question i have is, how do you come to a complete stop given all the different motions acting on the space ship

orbit around the earth

orbit around the sun

orbin in the solar system

orbit in the galaxy

orbit in the cosmos

and other motions too subtle to detail here

go with answer 1

Answer 4

The short answer: with LOTS of rocket fuel. You would probably plan your launch so that you escaped Earth at a point directly between Earth and the Sun, so that the 1000mph rotation was in the opposite direction of its orbit, giving you a bit of a head start. You might also use the Moon for a gravity assist, but in the end, this would take a lot of fuel to accomplish.

Secondly - you'd better hope you weren't on board that rocket once this happened - it would then fall directly into the Sun! If you didn't have any more fuel once "full stop" was accomplished, then it's a one way ticket to solar annihilation for you!