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📅 NSB 2017🎓 HS🔄 Round 16#️⃣ Q1🌟 BONUS✍️ Short Answer

A spacecraft approaches Jupiter head-on for a gravitational slingshot maneuver. Jupiter has an orbital velocity of 13 kilometers per second. If the spacecraft was originally moving at 20 kilometers per second, what is the maximal final speed, in kilometers per second, it can attain?

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