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Chapter 12, Problem 54Q
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The speed at which a spacecraft’s rocket motor would have to accelerate the spacecraft to escape Earth’s atmosphere and then return after completing its mission. It is given that this hypothetical spacecraft would float while being suspended from balloons for extended periods of time in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere.
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