The lawyers and insurance companies would stop you. This isn't a new idea, and the early satellites used a lot of gold in them. However, all those satellites h

The lawyers and insurance companies would stop you. This isn't a new idea, and the early satellites used a lot of gold in them. However, all those satellites have an owner, and those owners are not willing to let you take the satellites away for "recycling" without getting a profit-eliminating payment. Before satellite removal could become a viable business, one would have to change the Outer Space Treaties in order to make it work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty