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 M_E = 5.97 × 10²⁴ kg, G = 6.67 × 10⁻¹¹ N m² kg⁻²)
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- 3440 m s⁻¹
- 5920 m s⁻¹
- 7720 m s⁻¹
- 8920 m s⁻¹
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