The International Space Station was launched to a distance of 3.50 × 10^2 km above the surface of the earth. The materials needed to build the station weighed 4.22 × 10^6 N, when measured at the surface of the Earth. Calculate the total weight when the space station is in orbit

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Centripetal Force

A particle, body, object or certain mass while travelling in a rotational path or semicircular path, experiences an inertia force. If that inertia force pulls the towards the inward of the imaginary circle in the rotation, it is termed as centripetal force.