An artificial Earth satellite moves in a circular orbit. How will the satellite’s orbit change if the speed is increased by a small amount? reduce?
September 16, 2020 | Education
| The orbit in either case will become elliptical. In the first case, that point of the orbit, where the velocity increased, will become the perigee of the new elliptical orbit, and in the second case, with decreasing velocity, its apogee.
