Part A

What is the speed of the ISS?

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Part B

What is the orbital period (T) of the ISS in minutes?

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T =

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Different satellites orbit the earth with a vast range ofaltitudes, from just a couple hundred km, all the way to tens ofthousands of km above the surface. The international space station(ISS) is in a low earth orbit, just 400km above the surface (youcan see it with the naked eye at sunset and sunrise as a bright,moving dot). At this altitude, the acceleration due to gravity hasa value of 8.69 m/s2 . (Assuming that the radius of theearth is 6400km).

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