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Your spaceship, traveling at 0.90c, needs to launch aprobe out the forward hatch so that its speed relative tothe planet that you are approaching is 0.95c. With whatspeed must it leave your ship?

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Your spaceship, traveling at 0.90c, needs to launch a
probe out the forward hatch so that its speed relative to
the planet that you are approaching is 0.95c. With what
speed must it leave your ship?

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