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An 825-kg space vehicle is circling Earth in a circular orbit with a radius of 10,300 km.Its orbit is to be changed to a larger circle with a radius of 17,400 km.How much energy is required to accomplish this? The mass of Earth is 5.97 × 1024 kg and G = 6.67 × 10-11 N ∙ m2/kg2.


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