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What will happen to a spacecraft that is traveling faster than orbital velocity?
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What will happen to a spacecraft that is traveling faster than orbital velocity?

What will happen to a spacecraft that is traveling faster than orbital velocity?-example-1
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Spacecraft can also orbit the Earth. If an object gains enough speed to attain escape velocity, its orbit becomes an open curve called a parabola. If it continues moving faster than escape velocity, its orbit is a flattened curve called a hyperbola.
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it will move away

Step-by-step explanation:

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