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At 5km up the Satellite would still be in the earths atmosphere and would also be subject to gravity. Put simply it would just fall back down. Space starts at about 100km up or 62 miles. The moon also has 1/6ths of Earths gravity and at 5km up there would be little if any pull from the moon.

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