Reply #14: Not as much as you might otherwise think [View All]

[Emperor_Norton_II]

Though I daresay there will be a market for disposal services...

By keeping the new generation of MtPE satellites or comsats or whatever as efficient and low-cost as possible it'd be a better solution to simply launch a replacement than to have to send up a manned mission for a repair job. Until something like an elevator (remember that? Half of the main goal for my proposal?) is in place it would continue to be too expensive to send a crew up for all but the most critical of service missions.