Recalling the relationship between force and period of circular motion, the period, radius and mass of the satellite are related to the centripetal force pulling the satellite away from a straight ...

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What keeps each of these orbits happening rather than having us go travelling off away from the sun, is something called centripetal force. TIM PEAKE:And for an explanation of what that is ...