Question: ( 3 4 pts . ) You are designing a mission to pass close to a mysterious object in a circular orbit about the sun

(34 pts.) You are designing a mission to pass close to a mysterious object in a circular orbit about the sun with a radius of 2.81011m. You want to incorporate a Mars flyby to gain velocity such that your spacecraft can reach that distance. You have tailored its flyby of Mars so that it will have a distance parameter, d=8.0106m. Obviously, you have designed the mission so that your spacecraft will encounter Mars' Sphere of Influence (SOI) inside of Mars' orbit (i.e. between Mars and the Sun). Your spacecraft will leave a circular parking orbit about the Earth which has a radius of 6.7106m. by applying a V=3,743msec tangent to its orbit and the resulting residual velocity will be aligned with the Earth's orbital velocity. What velocity will your spacecraft gain from the Mars flyby, and will you be able to reach the mysterious object? Again, you may assume that Earth and Mars are in coplanar orbits.
( 3 4 pts . ) You are designing a mission to pass

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