Jorge R. Frank wrote:

easier.

And cheaper, and more likely to work. If the authorities of the day
choose the former, then by definition they aren't competent.

Given the potential air drag of the solar arrays on it when deployed as
airbrakes, it shouldn't take much of a retro burn to get it to come down
where you want.
Somebody's got to film it when they do it, because that's going to light
up the whole sky for a couple of hundred mile's radius.

Pat