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I was thought that weight is the force acting uppon an object because it is pulled down to eg the earth, so I would say that a satelite and a skydiver are both weightless while falling, but gravity pulls them down. The answer was supposed to be that the satelite doesn't have weight, but I also...

Hello everyone, A few weeks ago I got a test about physics. One of the questions on the test was about a satelite that would go to an other planet, it was doing system tests in orbit, we had to tell if the satelite had weight. I understand it doesn't, because it is falling and so doesn't apply...