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On December 1, 2005, a spacecraft left a 180 km altitude circular orbit around Earth on...

On December 1, 2005, a spacecraft left a 180 km altitude circular orbit around Earth on a mission to Venus. It arrived at Venus 121 days later on April 1, 2006, entering a 300 km by 9000 km capture ellipse around the planet. Calculate the total delta v required for this mission.

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