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by imglorp 912 days ago
It will have about zero horizontal velocity, or whatever ambient wind speed. For orbit, it would need 21000 kph.
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Average windspeed at 30km altitude looks to be about 15 m/s which is certainly not nothing especially compared to average surface speeds.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Average-wind-speeds-in-m...