A spacecraft is in a circular orbit of radius r about the Earth. What is the minimum v (in km/s) the rocket engines must provide to allow the craft to escape from the Earth?

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A spacecraft is in a circular orbit of radius r about the Earth. What is the minimum v (in km/s)

the rocket engines must provide to allow the craft to escape from the Earth?

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needs to be going about 11 kilometers (7 miles) per second,

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