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by CydeWeys 2413 days ago
> To put it into perspective, Voyager 1 has a current speed of 17 kilometers per second

And the Earth has 30 km/s, yet we don't get Voyager "for free" and then some just from LEO. You can't compare speeds in different parts of the gravity well against each other because then you're ignoring the dv required to get from here to there.