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Agree completely. Never said anything about raising orbit. Perhaps you conflated my post with another one. I thought the 14 tons of fuel was for *deorbiting*, and that was what you were indicating by "land/reenter in a predictable spot". Was that calculation for 100m/s velocity change for...

At what ISP? How many burns? Any inclination adjustment? Those are factors. Still, a <20T payload heavy lift vehicle could probably deliver the system. That vehicle exists. It would cost a lot less than the decommissioning of an aircraft carrier :cool:

Aerobraking with a small drag plane on a heat-tolerant cable? Hmm. My initial thought was SiC fiber cable (very high temp, long enough breaking length) with a small controllable pitch planing drogue, much like a plane or "otter" used for trawling, naval minesweeping and the like. Pay the...