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You are a junior space cadet on an interstellar space station.Your job is to launch a long distance spacecraft. The mass of thespacecraft without any fuel is 1217 kg. This mass is often calleddry mass. The rocket engine of the craft can exhaust hot gas at aspeed of 2.26 km/s relative to the space craft. How much rocketpropellant does the craft need, if you want the craft to reach afinal speed of 5.51 km/s relative to the station? In interstellarspace the gravitational pull of the stars is negligible.

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