Confused...
What is max speed?
Is 5,000 seconds how long it takes to reach max speed?
How long does it take to slow down to orbital speed?
What happens when an Earth spacecraft, traveling many times faster than usual speed, collides with micro meteorites?
Max Speed unknown, when fuel runs out.
5000 seconds burn time = 83 minutes
Slow down = same as speed up
Faster than ‘usual’? Bigger holes than ‘usual’............
If they use the same propulsion system they would have turn turn the vehicle around about halfway.
Unless they are going to use air-braking at Mars. Is there enough atmosphere to do that at that mass and speed?