Put a satellite in orbit, then arrest its orbital velocity with rockets, not atmospheric braking, then bring it back down to earth with retrorockets. This will require a lot of fuel.
Put a satellite in a retrograde equatorial orbit.
Hover a rocket for a long time.
Manned capsule of these things.
(Some have probably already been done.)
Why do these things? "Not because they are easy, but because they are hard."
Israel does this for their space launches. They launch their rockets toward the Mediterranean in order to avoid a diplomatic incident in case range safety needs to blow something up.
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