Question 63

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A satellite is in a circular orbit around Earth with a time period of 90 minutes. The radius of Earth is 6370 km, mass of Earth is

kg and the universal gravitational constant is

Nm

/kg

. The altitude of the satellite above mean sea level is ___ km. (round off to the nearest integer)

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GATE AE 2023 · Paper 1

Aerospace Engineering · Original paper archive

Section
Aerospace Engineering
Question type
Numerical answer (NAT)
Marks
2 marks

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