Let’s use common sense for just one minute. A large satellite can weigh more than 1000 kg (over 2000 pounds) and the majority of them are said to be between 100 miles (160 kilometers) to 1240 miles (2000 kilometers) above sea level.
They also say “space” begins around 62 miles (100 kilometers) above sea level.
So if you took a 2000-pound satellite and dropped it from 1 mile above sea level, what would happen?
It would come crashing down, right?
What about from 20 miles? Same thing.
30? Yep, same thing.
50? I would guarantee it would come down.
But at 62 miles above sea level the magic begins. That’s where a 2000-pound object can somehow find an orbit around the spinning space ball WITHOUT any balloons and maintain that height…forever.
Amazing