how exacly are scientists in NASA calculating orbits of their satelites?

Question

For example, lets say NASA wants to send a satelite aroud a moon,

if they want this spacecraft to be in a certain orbit, they need to know at what speed it needs to be moving; how are they going to calculate that speed?

by using Newton’s equations or by using some special relativity equations?

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