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A deorbit burn has been performed. During this deorbit burn a pre-calculated Delta V (change in velocity) of 290 ft/s (or 88.4
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Kendall
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The shuttle must perform the de-orbit burn to change its orbit so that the perigee, the point in the orbit closest to Earth, is
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Cloud
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The space shuttle is in a 3e+5 m high orbit over the earth. The radius of the earth is 6.37e+6 m, the mass of the earth is
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Carly
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A satellite with mass 6.00*10^3 is in the equatorial plane in a circular orbit. The planet's mass = 6.59 *10^25 and a day of
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Jets
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Sorry for reposting this but I'm still confused with the last part...
You have been sent in a small spacecraft to rendezvous with
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Catherine
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What would be the effect on satellites now in orbit if the earth stopped rotating
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clay
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A 71.4 kg satellite orbits the earth at a distance of 7.00E6 m from the center of the earth (a distance of 630 km above the
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Alex
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Suppose there's a collison way out in the Oort cloud, say 30,000 AU away from the Sun. This collison causes one of the comets to
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Stefanie
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A 7450kg satellite has an elliptical orbit. The point on the orbit that is farthest from the earth is called the apogee. The
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Cavin
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You have been sent in a small spacecraft to rendezvous with a space station that is in a low circular Earth orbit, say, with a
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Catherine
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15000N on earth
2250N on moon Moon Radius= 1.74x10^6m Orbital Height 100km Total orbit 1.84x10^6m What is orbital speed?
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bob
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A satellite is placed between the Earth and the Moon, along a straight line that connects their centers of mass. The satellite
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Roberto
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Two bodies with equal masses orbit the Sun in a circular orbit. If the radii of the two orbits are the same then following is
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Alex
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The space shuttle releases a satellite into a circular orbit 700 km above the Earth. How fast must the shuttle be moving
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angela
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Sorry for reposting this but I'm still confused with the last part...
You have been sent in a small spacecraft to rendezvous with
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Catherine
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Show that the total mechanical energy of a satellite (mass m) orbiting a distance r from the center of the Earth (mass M-e)is:
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Anonymous
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Three masses, m1 (a mouse), m2 (a bear) and m3 (an elephant), are in circular orbits of radii r1, r2 and r3 around the sun. The
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Vahi
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the space shuttle does one full orbit every 90 minutes and the earth is 25,000 miles around. What is the apparent speed of the
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Megan
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The shuttle must perform the de-orbit burn to change its orbit so that the perigee, the point in the orbit closest to Earth, is
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Cloud
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A satellite has a mass of 6090 kg and is in a circular orbit 4.63 × 105 m above the surface of a planet. The period of the
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Tim
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Calculate the velocity needed for an object starting at the Earth's surface to just barely reach a satellite in a geosynchronous
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Sam
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Determine the value that has the largest total energy. Assuming that the orbirts are circular.
(a) 1000 kg satellite at
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Malcom
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Sorry for reposting this but I'm still confused with the last part...
You have been sent in a small spacecraft to rendezvous with
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Catherine
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Why do objects orbit the sun? conneuxs
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hAi ThErE
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A satellite is orbit about earth, its orbital radius is 3.43*10e7m.The mass of the satellite is 9166kg and the mass of earth is
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shug
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I'm really struggling trying to understand what formulas to use for the following:
A satellite orbits the earth with a radius of
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Anna
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As a moon follows its orbit around a planet, the maximum gravitational force exerted on the moon by the planet exceeds the
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Ryan C.
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A new geosynchronous satellite needs an orbit of 35.7 km . The mass of the Earth is 5.97x 10^24 Kg and the radius of Earth 6.4 x
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Boberto
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A satellite orbiting Earth at an orbital radius r has a velocity v. What would the velocity be if the satellite is moved to an
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A satellite orbiting the Earth at an orbital radius r has a velocity v. What would the velocity be if the satellite is moved to
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a satellite orbiting the Earth at an orbital radius r has a velocity v. What would the velocity be if the satellite is moved to
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scarscar
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Observing a planetoid orbiting far from the sun, astronomers notice that the object slows down in its orbit in a way they did
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1. Use the sentences to answer the question.
Comets often have orbits that take them far from the sun, where they move very
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meh
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A satellite orbiting Earth at an orbital radius r has a velocity v. What would the velocity be if the satellite is moved to an
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A weather satellite in circular orbit around Earth completes one orbit every 5 hours. The radius of
Earth is about 6,400 km and
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J
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satellite orbiting Earth at an orbital radius r has a velocity v. Which represents the velocity if the satellite is moved to an
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The US Military WGS (Wideband Global SATCOM) system of communication satellites have been launched into GEO. Each satellite
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