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A `400 kg` satellite is in a circular orbit of radius `2 R_(E)` around the Earth. How much energy is required to transfer it to a circular orbit of radius `4 R_(E)`? What are the changes in the kinetic and potential energies?
Given `g = 9.81 m^(-2) , R_(E) = 6.37 xx 10^(6) m`.

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