>You can't reasonably measure this by the kg. Pulling down a single 10000 kg satellite is fairly cheap On the contrary, this seems reasonable. It (correctly) i

>You can't reasonably measure this by the kg. Pulling down a single 10000 kg satellite is fairly cheap On the contrary, this seems reasonable. It (correctly) identifies that deorbiting intact satellites before they fragment is overwhelmingly the cost-optimal strategy. In the long-run, it's really total mass in a given orbit that's the dominant variable which separates runaway Kessler syndrome from stability. Therefore, a per-kilogram "bounty" (with a sliding scale depending on orbit) wouldn't be a bad incentive model. Don't pick winners, let the market decide™.