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pav-90 [236]
3 years ago
9

Which of Newton's laws explains why satellites need very little fuel to stay in oribit?

Physics
1 answer:
Angelina_Jolie [31]3 years ago
4 0

Sattelites don't need any fuel to stay in orbit. The applicable law is...."objects in motion tend to stay in motion". Having reached orbital velocity, any such object is essentially "falling" around the earth. Since there is no (or at least very little) friction in the vacuum of space, the object does not slow.... It simply continues.


Sattelites in "low" earth orbit do encounter some friction from the very thin upper atmosphere, and they will eventually "decay".

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