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Calculate the average distance of a spacecraft in a “stationary” orbit around Titan using Newton’s form of Kepler’s third law. All data needed for this calculation are provided. Express the result in terms of 103km.

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Note: Titan has 1:1 spin - orbit coupling (i.e., its period or revolution is equal to its period of rotation). 

a = (0.4330 × 1024)1/3 = 0.7565 ×108

a = 0.7565 ×105km = 75.65 × 103km

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