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No, not by jumping. Jumping gives you an acceleration only from the location on the surface. As soon as you leave the surface, you have no way of adjusting your orbit. Either you reach escape velocity, or you will return to your initial location after exactly one orbit.

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The only way to prevent this would be to have an additional acceleration once you have departed from the surface. Spacecraft use rockets to do this. A tiny acceleration may be enough — though I wouldn't like approaching a planet with high speed only to move 5 cm over its surface with high speed!

Edit: A different way would be jump from a ladder, as Claudius pointed out in the other answer. [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/S0MmL.jpg

No, not by jumping. Jumping gives you an acceleration only from the location on the surface. As soon as you leave the surface, you have no way of adjusting your orbit. Either you reach escape velocity, or you will return to your initial location after exactly one orbit.

![enter image description here][1]

The only way to prevent this would be to have an additional acceleration once you have departed from the surface. Spacecraft use rockets to do this. A tiny acceleration may be enough — though I wouldn't like approaching a planet with high speed only to move 5 cm over its surface with high speed!

Edit: A different way would be jump from a ladder, as Claudius pointed out in the other answer. [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/S0MmL.jpg

No, not by jumping. Jumping gives you an acceleration only from the location on the surface. As soon as you leave the surface, you have no way of adjusting your orbit. Either you reach escape velocity, or you will return to your initial location after exactly one orbit.

enter image description here

The only way to prevent this would be to have an additional acceleration once you have departed from the surface. Spacecraft use rockets to do this. A tiny acceleration may be enough — though I wouldn't like approaching a planet with high speed only to move 5 cm over its surface with high speed!

Edit: A different way would be jump from a ladder, as Claudius pointed out in the other answer.

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No, not by jumping. Jumping gives you an acceleration only from the location on the surface. As soon as you leave the surface, you have no way of adjusting your orbit. Either you reach escape velocity, or you will return to your initial location after exactly one orbit.

![enter image description here][1]

The only way to prevent this would be to have an additional acceleration once you have departed from the surface. Spacecraft use rockets to do this. A tiny acceleration may be enough — though I wouldn't like approaching a planet with high speed only to move 5 cm over its surface with high speed!

Edit: A different way would be jump from a ladder, as Claudius pointed out in the other answer. [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/S0MmL.jpg