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Around 2005-06 I saw around 15 minutes of a live-action movie on my TV.
Some astronauts travelling in their spaceship try to land their ship on a planet. The plot twist was, after entering that planet's atmosphere their ship is (literally) stuck in the atmosphere. Where the planet's atmosphere should be gassy or windy, instead it's comprised of floating meteors in the atmosphere.
There seems an outside chance that this could be the Voyager Episode Blink of an Eye S06E12.
While the OP has specified a live-action movie on TV, they've also said they only saw 15 minutes, which leaves open the possibility of mistaking a TV show for a lower budget movie. This episode was originally broadcast in 2000, Voyager would probably have been on permanent loops on various TV channels by 2005/06
The cold opening has the ship and crew being pulled into orbit of a new planet and rooted in the sky as a permanent fixture.
The USS Voyager approaches a planet rotating 58 times per minute and, while investigating, the ship enters a gravimetric gradient pulling it into a geosynchronous orbit in which the crew becomes trapped. On the planet, a native is then seen preparing an altar. Just then, an earthquake occurs, and the native sees a new star in the sky, which is Voyager.
Later on, we have some classic astronaut suited types getting more closely involved with the crew before saving their ass.
