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Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, had a mass of 83.6kg and traveled at 7574 m/s. The radius of the earth is 6371 km and its mass is 5.972 x 10²⁴ kg. How high was Sputnik above the ground in meters during its orbit?