A 4500-kg spaceship is in a circular orbit 190 km above the surface of Earth. It needs to be moved into a higher circular orbit of 390 km to link up with the space station at that altitude. In this problem you can take the mass of the Earth to be 5.97 × 1024 kg. How much work, in joules, do the spaceship’s engines have to perform to move to the higher orbit? Ignore any change of mass due to fuel consumption

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 A 4500-kg spaceship is in a circular orbit 190 km above the surface of Earth. It needs to be moved into a higher circular orbit of 390 km to link up with the space station at that altitude. In this problem you can take the mass of the Earth to be 5.97 × 1024 kg.
How much work, in joules, do the spaceship’s engines have to perform to move to the higher orbit? Ignore any change of mass due to fuel consumption. 

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