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Emergency Satellite Recovery Service
A rapid-response service equipped with specialized robotic systems for capturing malfunctioning or prematurely degrading satellites and safely de-orbiting or containing them before they cause further damage. This would act as a 'fire brigade' for space.

Future Scenarios that inspired this product idea

Satellites are designed with biological degradation mechanisms, allowing them to safely decompose after their mission end through genetically modified microbes.
Extrapolated from The Space Junk Crisis Needs a Recycling Revolution - Scientific American

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