Predicting the motion of orbiting objects

The same Newtonian laws of gravity that describe how planets and moons orbit each other can also be used mathematically to predict the orbital motion of human-made satellites, since a satellite orbiting Earth follows the identical physics as a moon orbiting a planet. These calculations, based on the gravitational attraction between two bodies at a time, let scientists predict exactly where an orbiting object will be at a given time.

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