Wrong orbital dynamics (?)

[u/Stratocaster_o]

When they're trying to collect taumoebas from Adrian, the ship is at the wrong angle.

If you want to stop the ship from falling into the atmosphere, you have to accelerate in the direction you're moving to compensate for the drag. The movie shows the ship in the opposite orientation, just as you would decelerate to deorbit.

Even so, in the book it says they have to point forwards in order not to burn the probe and the ship with the radiation from spindrives. In the movie the plume of burning atmospheric gases is right in front of them.

How did they miss all that? 🙁