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Originally Posted by MrL_JaKiri
Why? It's acting along a line through the center of our assumed perfect sphere (that is, directly opposed to gravity), so there won't be any torque, and thus no change in angular momentum. If we wouldn't disregard forces that operated like that, then we'd quickly run out of uses for conservation of angular momentum, because things like orbits would no longer have it conserved.
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Your terminology confused me, not the concept
Until your rotational velocity was correct for your altitude.