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So make 'em separate missions, of course. You have to run the retrieval mission and have it succeed before you're granted a launch license for the original miss

So make 'em separate missions, of course. You have to run the retrieval mission and have it succeed before you're granted a launch license for the original mission of putting something up.

simonh 6y ago
Mission-for-mission makes no sense, who decides what mass or orbit of junk counts for your mission? You really have to wait years and set up a whole different mission architecture before you can launch your own project? It's bananas. However a cleanup tax on satellite launches used to fund recovery efforts might work.