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Please help with this problem.   Consider a spacecraft in a 500 km altitude circular orbit.  This spacecraft transits (via Hohmann transfer) to a 200 km altitude circular orbit for repair, then back to a 500 km circular orbit.  Did it require more delta-V to transfer from the higher to lower orbit, or from the lower to higher orbit?  (Circle one) It required more delta-V to transit from 500 km (circular) to 200 km (circular) It required more delta-V to transit from 200 km (circular) to 500 km (circular) It requires the same delta-V to transit from 500 km to 200 km as it would to return There is not enough information to answer this question (if so what other information is missing?)

Please help with this problem.   Consider a spacecraft in a 500 km altitude circular orbit.  This spacecraft transits (via Hohmann transfer) to a 200 km altitude circular orbit for repair, then back to a 500 km circular orbit.  Did it require more delta-V to transfer from the higher to lower orbit, or from the lower to higher orbit?  (Circle one) It required more delta-V to transit from 500 km (circular) to 200 km (circular) It required more delta-V to transit from 200 km (circular) to 500 km (circular) It requires the same delta-V to transit from 500 km to 200 km as it would to return There is not enough information to answer this question (if so what other information is missing?)

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Consider a spacecraft in a 500 km altitude circular orbit.  This spacecraft transits (via Hohmann transfer) to a 200 km altitude circular orbit for repair, then back to a 500 km circular orbit.  Did it require more delta-V to transfer from the higher to lower orbit, or from the lower to higher orbit?  (Circle one)

  1. It required more delta-V to transit from 500 km (circular) to 200 km (circular)
  2. It required more delta-V to transit from 200 km (circular) to 500 km (circular)
  3. It requires the same delta-V to transit from 500 km to 200 km as it would to return
  4. There is not enough information to answer this question (if so what other information is missing?)
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