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Push hard enough and a body leaves for good, coasting away and never returning. The threshold is escape velocity:

v_escape = √(2μ / r)

That is exactly √2 ≈ 1.41 times the circular speed at the same distance. Below it you are bound in an ellipse; at or above it your path opens into a parabola or hyperbola and you are gone.