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Exercise 11

Energy of a satellite and escape from the orbit

Theory used: Energy of a satellite in a circular orbitEscape velocity

A satellite of mass travels on a circular orbit of radius around the Earth (). Compute its mechanical energy and the minimum work needed to bring it to infinite distance.

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