Spaceship Mechanics

A spaceship is launched radially away from the earth with the help of a rocket. When the spaceship acquires speed v 0 v_{0}
the rocket used is switched off. As the spaceship proceeds further away from the earth, its speed v v decreases with time t t as shown in the graph and eventually the spaceship acquires a constant velocity that is one fifth of v 0 v_{0}
How far away from the centre of the earth, was the rocket switched off?

Answer comes in the form of α v 0 t 0 \alpha v_{0} t_{0}
Find α = ? \alpha=?

Note:
1) The graph wants to show that when the rocket is switched off from that instant t = 0 t=0 is considered .
2) See the graph carefully, it also wants to show that the spaceship reached its terminal velocity at time 8 t 0 8t_{0} .


The answer is 2.4.

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