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📅 NSB Double Elimination 2012🎓 HS🔄 Round 4#️⃣ Q16🌟 BONUS✍️ Short Answer

A spacecraft is in circular low-Earth orbit at an altitude of 400 kilometers and needs to be transferred to a circular orbit at an altitude of 120,000 kilometers. Providing your answer with one significant figure, what is the delta-v required for the spacecraft to get into the Hohmann transfer orbit, if the initial velocity is about 7,500 meters per second?

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