Question

a space shuttle releases a 470 kg communication satellite while in a orbit 280 km above the surface of the earth a rocket engine in the satellite boosts it into the geosynchronous orbit , which is an orbit in which the satellite stays over a single location on the earth how much energy did the engine have to provide?​

Answer 1

According to Kepler's third law, the relation between orbital period T of a celestial object and the semi-major axis a is written as

{eq}T=\frac...