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Why the state of weightlessness occurs in artificial satellites and not in natural satellites?

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On natural satellite like the moon, the man does not experience weightlessness because the mass of moon (natural satellite) is more and it applies a force of gravity on man. But in artificial satellite, the mass of satellite is less, so it imposes less gravitational force on the object due to which the astronaut experience the weightlessness.

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