On 2020-07-26 2:51 AM, Niklas Holsti wrote:
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Or the final approach and catch could be secured by using a drone to
carry a towing wire from the ship to the fairing, when the fairing is
say 100 m up, and then using the wire to slowly pull the fairing down
and into the net.


That's an interesting approach. Could be interesting to see if SpaceX
does a follow-on plan to do that. Mid-air capture was a way to recover
film cartridges ejected and de-orbited from spy sats back in the 60s.

Dave