ENGINEERING APPLICATION One of the first successful

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ENGINEERING APPLICATION One of the first successful satellites launched by the United States in the 1950s was essentially a large spherical (aluminized) Mylar balloon from which radio signals were reflected. After several orbits around Earth, scientists noticed that the orbit itself was changing with time. They eventually determined that radiation pressure from sunlight was causing the orbit of this object to changea phenomenon not taken into account in planning the mission. Estimate the ratio of the radiation-pressure force by the sunlight on the satellite to the gravitational force by Earths gravity on the satellite.

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