The Death Star has a mass of 0.001% of the Earth's mass and has established a circular orbit around the earth with a radius of 8 x 10⁷ m. You want to plan a trajectory to rendezvous with it using a patched conic approximation. How far does its sphere of influence extend from its center of mass for this orbit about the Earth?

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