A missile weighing 400N on the earth surface is shot into the atmosphere to an altitude of 6.4 x $10^{-6}$m. Taking the earth as a sphere of radius 6.4 x $10^{-6}$m and assuming the inverse-square law of universal gravitation, what would be the weight of the missile at that altitude?

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