You and your colleagues have been tasked with launching a weather balloon into the Earth's stratosphere via rocket ship. In order to reduce fuel usage to meet with newly imposed fuel-consumption regulations, you are hoping to use the electric interaction between charges to your advantage. You have decided on the design below. You are able to place two Q = 1.95 C charges in the rocket ship and into the launching platform so that they are separated by a distance of yo = 2.85 m. You are allowed enough fuel to boost the rocket to an initial speed of v = 307 m/s without accounting for the extra boost from the charges. The rocket on its own has a mass of 2.091104 kg. The more equipment you can attach to your weather balloon (which is inside the rocket), the better. What limit do you put on the mass of the weather balloon and attached equipment? You may want to know the formula for gravitational potential energy for an object of mass m and height h: Egray = mgh, where g=9.81 m/s. Edge of Stratosphere (50 km from Earth) Launching Platform Yo (distance between charges) m = Submit Answer Tries 0/8 Earth