Suppose you want to place a 1000 kg weather satellite into a circular orbit 300 km above the surface of the earth of radius 6380 km. What speed must it have? (Take Mₑ = 5.97 × 10²⁴ kg and G = 6.67 × 10⁻¹¹ N m²/kg²)
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- 3440 m/s
- 4440 m/s
- 5920 m/s
- 7720 m/s
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