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by Tronno 501 days ago
You fundamentally misunderstand the concepts. The other poster is correct. Given two orbits, it takes just as much energy to get "up" as it does to get "down".
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care to provide some math? delta v calcs quite definitely disagree. no one is going to LEO on only 220 m/s. assuming an impact with the surface of course, which is clearly part of the equation.

if landing gently, then sure. but that is an entirely different problem.