>>12571720some other anons explained it, but this is a pretty good visualization if that's how you conceptualize.
to understand a bit more, rockets to put things in orbit are mainly gaining horizontal velocity and not as much vertical. The gravity at which a lot of satellites stay is nearly the same we experience on earth, the reason we have to put them up there is because of air drag
while we can't breath up there obviously there's still a lot of gasses that do compound and create friction slowly slowing the sats down, imagine putting your hand out of a car window at 27,000 km/h or 10x the speed of a bullet there would have to be a near zero particles for your hand not to get pushed back
the farther the sats are (the moon included) the less atoms per meter there is to slow them down, but it is technically slowing down, and will EVENTUALLY fall
