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The space shuttle is in a 3e+5 m high orbit over the earth. The radius of the earth is 6.37e+6 m, the mass of the earth is 5.98e+24 kg.

What is the distance from the center of the earth to the space shuttle?

I don't know whether I would double the radius and the add the height of the space shuttle or if there is an equation I should use?

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distance to shuttle from earth center=
radius earth+altitide

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