Homework Help: physorbit

Posted by opp on Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 3:07pm.

A spacecraft is in orbit around a planet. The radius of the orbit is 3.2 times the radius of the planet (which is R = 71490 km). The gravitational field at the surface of the planet is 24 N/kg. What is the period of the spacecraft's orbit?

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