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Given information

  • The mass of the earth's surface is .
  • Find the measure the force of gravity on a spacecraft that is Earth radii above the Earth's surface.

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.
  • Gravity acting on a satellite is directly proportional to the product of the masses of the satellite and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the satellites.
  • The force of gravity on a spacecraft equals its weight , where is the object's mass and is the acceleration due to gravity.

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