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This document contains a 10 question multiple choice quiz about space flight mechanics. The questions cover topics like orbital speed, eccentricity, semi-major axis, and time period for satellites in elliptic orbits around Earth or other celestial bodies. The document provides the questions, possible answer choices for each, and identifies the correct answer.

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Assignment 2

This document contains a 10 question multiple choice quiz about space flight mechanics. The questions cover topics like orbital speed, eccentricity, semi-major axis, and time period for satellites in elliptic orbits around Earth or other celestial bodies. The document provides the questions, possible answer choices for each, and identifies the correct answer.

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Space Flight Mechanics

Assignment Week 2
TYPE OF QUESTION: MCQ/MSQ

Number of questions: 10 Total marks: 10 x 1 = 10

Question 1
Consider a satellite moving in an elliptic orbit about a focus under attraction
µ
r 2 . The eccentricity of the orbit is 0.4. The orbital speed of the satellite is 7
km/s when the distance of the satellite from the occupied focus is 15000 km.
What will be the orbital speed of the satellite when the true anomaly is 45◦ ?
(where r is the radius, and µ = 398601km3 /s2 )

a) 9.12 km/s
b) 1.33 km/s
c) 5.23 km/s
d) 2.92 km/s

correct answer: d

Question 2
Consider a satellite moving around the earth. The specific energy and specific
angular momentum of the satellite are −5 km2 /s2 and 70000 km2 /s, respec-
tively. The satellite’s altitude at perigee is (radius of the earth is 6400 km)
a) 1523.2 km

b) 802.9 km
c) 1008.4 km

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d) 312.44 km
correct answer: d

Question 3
Referring to Question 2, the satellite’s altitude at apogee (in km) is
a) 40745
b) 70895
c) 66608
d) 35889
correct answer: c

Question 4
Consider a satellite moving in an orbit about a focus under attraction rµ2 . The
velocity of the satellite at perigee is 2 times of the apogee velocity. The eccen-
tricity of the orbit is
a) 0.78
b) 0.29
c) 0.52
d) 0.33
correct answer: d

Question 5
Consider a satellite moving in an elliptic orbit about a focus under attraction
µ
r 2 . The semi-major axis and the eccentricity of the orbit are 30000 km and 0.6,
respectively. The radial velocity of the satellite at the true anomaly of 60◦ is
(where r is the radius, and µ = 398601 km3 /s2 )
a) 2.37 km/s
b) 7.26 km/s
c) 5.23 km/s

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d) 9.49 km/s
correct answer: a

Question 6
A body describing an ellipse of eccentricity e = 0.4 under the action of a force
tending toward a focus, and when it is at the near apsis the center of force is
transferred to the other focus. The eccentricity of the new orbit will be
a) 0.52
b) 0.78
c) 2.27
d) 3.82
correct answer: c

Question 7
A satellite is moving in an elliptic orbit with apogee and perigee at an altitude of
1500 km and 300 km, respectively. The orbital speed of the satellite at perigee
is ( µ = 398601km3 /s2 and radius of the earth is 6400 km)
a) 6.729 km/s
b) 4.012 km/s
c) 8.024 km/s
d) 13.268 km/s
correct answer: c

Question 8
Referring to Question 7, the orbital speed of the satellite at apogee is
a) 6.81 km/s
b) 3.15 km/s
c) 9.28 km/s
d) 12.42 km/s
correct answer: a

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Question 9
Referring to Question 7, the time period of the orbit is

a) 95.3 min
b) 103.4 min
c) 151.6 min

d) 110.2 min
correct answer: b

Question 10
A particle moves in a circular orbit of radius 20000 km under an attraction to a
point inside the circle. The greatest and least speeds of the particle in its orbit
are 10 km/s and 7 km/s, respectively. The time period of the particle is
a) 312.26 min

b) 176.42 min
c) 125.23 min
d) 254.19 min
correct answer: d

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