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Don't really expect to make money on the salvage. Expect to make it on the contracts to remove the debris from valuable orbital space.

Boiled down, a multi nationally funded, privately owned, space debris retrieval and recycling corporation.

We think that gently dropping the payload just prior to landing would be more cost effective, in that the decent vehicle would get a bit of a slingshot back into lunar orbit to await it's next mission, and the payload would remain relatively unharmed. This is a long term project which we think...

Sorry again for the confusion. I didn't realize I was talking to 3 different people.

A thru d are correct, but the "junk" upper stages wouldn't come back to earth, but be stored on the lunar surface for refitting at a later date. Hopefully to expedite some sort of human presence on the moon. As far as the law, we would touch nothing we weren't contracted to, with the disclosure...

I do appreciate you all being so brutal, it keeps me focused. Remember it is a work in progress.

There are a few. Mostly using tethers to add resistance and degrade the orbit to eventual destruction, but that's what we want to avoid.

And if THIS is DARPA's responsibility,--- well frankly, they are "sucking" at it (to use the vernacular) Sorry, I assumed they were going where needed. I do see how it could be confusing to a newcomer to the thread.

We aren't going to BUY anything. The idea is to get paid to remove these hinderences to navigation.

It was proposed that upper stage structures could be retrofitted as habitat. Of course this is a future phase. The recycling would be first, in an effort to finance the latter.

Now see, that's what I need. Thank you. I will try. Or should one of my tech. guys go?

Our website should be up and running soon. No I am not rich, except in mind. You bring up numerous valid points, most of which, well some of which, we have heard and are, or intend to address. It is ambitious, but we have to be, to achieve. I was just looking for exactly what you gave me. It...

Believe me, I don't profess to know all aspects of the project, but I have surrounded myself with people who do.

As far as the repurposing, we believe that some of the structures in orbit could be retrofitted as the basic beginnings of lunar habitat. After a soft crash landing on the lunar surface. The recycling begins with a reusable, shielded reentry vehicle, basically a hollow tube, splash down and...

We are doing some cost analysis now. It seems the entire infrastructure exists, and initial costs seem high, but getting space faring nations to aid in the cleanup of their respective messes should be the way to go. The vehicles on the other hand, with funding are within a 5 year window, as all...