Period of revolution of the weather satellite


i) A space station and a weather satellite are orbiting the Earth. The space station is eight times as far from the Earth’s center as the weather satellite. When the period of revolution of the weather satellite is around 24 hours, find out the period of revolution of the space station in hours?

ii) Throughout the lunar mission of Apollo 11, Armstrong and Aldrin descended to the surface of moon in the lunar module whereas Collins remained in orbit in the command module. When the command module's period was 2 hours and 20 minutes, determine how high above the moon's surface did it orbit? (mmoon = 7.35 x 10^22 kg, Rmoon = 1.74 x10^6 m, and G = 6.67 x10^–11 N • m2/kg2).

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