Eli5: How do satellites stay in orbit, and don’t gravity pull them to the surface?

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Eli5: How do satellites stay in orbit, and don’t gravity pull them to the surface?

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Gravity does pull them back down to the surface but they’re just going too fast and end up missing the ground and have to keep going around
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