A spacecraft arrives at Mars’ sphere of influence with a heliocentric velocity of 22 km/s and...

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A spacecraft arrives at Mars’ sphere of influence with aheliocentric velocity of 22 km/s and a heliocentric fight-path angleof 10 deg. When the spacecraft reaches the periapsis of itsMars-centric arrival trajectory, at an altitude of 200 km, itperforms a ∆V to circularize its trajectory. What is the required∆V ?

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