How the hell did it travel such a long distance?
In: Earth Science
if you are on a long elliptical orbit around earth and you make a burn opposite the direction you are moving at the highest point of orbit, it is very easy and extremely “cheap” to slow down enough to get caught by the atmosphere and slow down into a reentry
You should try playing Kerbal Space Program, it will give you a fairly intuitive understanding of how orbital mechanics function
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