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In response to "But see, these people are experts and stuff. I am sure they could skip it along the atmosphere like rocks on water, right? -- nm*" by Spawn

Too shallow an angle of entry and it could, indeed, skip right off the atmosphere and back into a dangerous orbit.

What they've done is hit the sweet spot of reentry and almost complete burning up without endangering other things in orbit or anything on the ground.

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