Fastest Space Ships – The Fastest Ships in the Universe (original) (raw)

Relativistic Ships

Acceleration in G Force = 9.8m/s^2]

Voyager 1 (NASA)

Gravity Assist

0G

Discovery One

(2001: A Space Odyssey)

Nuclear-powered magnotoplasmadynamic thrusters

0.00002G

Red Dwarf (Red Dwarf)

Hydrogen engines, fuel collected via large scope at front

0.000033G

Ragnarok

(Final Fantasy VIII)

0.015G

DeLorean

(Back to the Future)

Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor / flux capacitor

0.34G

Jupiter 2 (Lost in Space)

Two deutronium-annihilation atomic motors

0.55G

Thunderbird 3

(Thunderbirds)

Ion drive / chemical rockets

1.12G

Space Shuttle Discovery

(NASA)

Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25

3G

Space Launch System [SLS]

(Interstellar)

Solid fuel, liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen

3.8G

Saturn V, Apollo 11

(NASA)

Saturn V SA-506

3.94G

Serenity (Firefly)

Trace compression block engine

4.2G

Cylon Raider

(Battlestar Galactica)

FTL drive

7.5G

Moon Rocket X-FLR6

(Tintin)

Nuclear rocket engine

8G

Colonial ViperMark VII

(Battlestar Galactica)

3 turbo-thrust engines

9G

Thunderfighter

(Buck Rogers)

Fusion

9.4G

Kal-El’s Escape Pod

(Superman: The Movie)

11G

The Event Horizon

(Event Horizon)

Ion drive

30G

Swordfish II

(Cowboy Bebop)

Rolls-Royce AF-15C axial fusion aero-spike turbine

50G

Project Orion (NASA)

Nuclear pulse propulsion

100G

Death (humans)

100G

TIE Fighters (Star Wars)

Twin ion engine

4,100G

Acceleration of a proton in the Large Hadron Collider

27-kilometer ring of superconducting magnets

1,900,000,000G

Faster Than Light

speed in C [C = 299,792,458 m / s]

USCSS Prometheus

(Prometheus)

4 ion-powered plasma engines

19.5C

Fireball XL5

(Fireball XL5)

Nutomic reactor

24C

USCSS Nostromo (Alien)

Rolls-Royce N66 Cyclone thrust engines

44C

The Ark (Transformers)

4 hyperfuel intake accelerators

115C

The USS Sulaco (Aliens)

Hyperdrive tachyon shunt

271C

USS Enterprise NCC-1701 (Star Trek)

Warp drive

512C

Pillar of Autumn (Halo)

Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine

959C

USS Enterprise NCC-1701 D (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

Warp drive

1,649C

USS Voyager

(Star Trek: Voyager)

Warp drive

1,909C

Borg Cube

(Star Trek: The Next Generation)

7,912C

Prawn Mothership

(District 9)

11,119C

Eagle 5 (Space Balls)

Liquid Schwartz

89,998C

Ascendant Justice

(Halo)

333,164C

Moya (Farscape)

Starburst

365,250C

The Gunstar

(The Last Starfighter)

Stardrive hyperdrive system

701,280C

Death Star (Star Wars)

Sepma 30-5 sublight engines

1,142,500C

The RoDger Young

(Starship Troopers)

1,300,000C

Galactica [BS-75]

(Battlestar Galactica)

1,680,000C

Axiom (Wall-E)

2,190,000C

Imperial II-Class Star Destroyer

(Star Wars)

Ion engine

2,285,000C

Trimaxion Drone Ship “Max”

(Flight of the Navigator)

Phaelon technology / David’s brain

4,460,000C

X-Wing T-65 Starfighter

(Star Wars)

Thrust engines and hyperdrive

4,570,000C

Samus’ Gunship

(Metroid)

Dual engines

6,500,000C

Slave 1

(Empire Strikes Back)

Ion engine

6,500,000C

Millennium Falcon

(Star Wars)

Class 0.5 hyperdrive

9,130,000C

Daedalus (Stargate)

Asgard hyperdrive

60,000,000C

Spaceball 1 (Space Balls)

Secret hyperjets

1,360,000,000C

Planet Express (Futurama)

Dark matter reactors with afterburners that move the universe around the ship; Later, whale oil

4,870,000,000,000C

The TARDIS (Dr. Who)

The sentient ‘Heart of the Tardis’ is powered by both the Time Vortex and the Eye of Harmony, which is an exploding star permanently suspended in time