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Weight of an object put in a satellite orbiting in space around the earth is

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Weight of an object put in a satellite orbiting in space around the earth is reduced to zero. The satellite will fly off into space in a direction which was tangential to its original direction of motion. This is because the direction of velocity of an object moving in a circular path is always tangential at every point along the path.
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