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A 5000-kg spacecraft is in a circular orbit 2000 km above the surface of Mars. How much work must the spacecraft engines perform to move the spacecraft to a circular orbit that is 4000 km above the surface?
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Authors: Hugh D. Young, Roger A. Freedman, A. Lewis Ford
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