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With enough force applied, the Earth will no longer be there when it comes back to that point.



Unless it reaches escape velocity (ie its never coming back) then it will always comeback to where it started from. The object is under the same gravitaional influences as the Earth

As others have pointed out, there is a rocket motor to put the payload into an orbit.




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