This is not a SFW instance. NSFW communities will be tagged, and efforts will be made to keep SFW communities clean, but proceed at your own comfort level.
What is realistic: multiple of them as a “transfer device”, each one alternating between lifting payload up (lowering their own orbit) and slowing a payload down for orbital entry (lifting themselves up).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook_(structure)
Edit: better explanation imo
What is realistic: multiple of them as a “transfer device”, each one alternating between lifting payload up (lowering their own orbit) and slowing a payload down for orbital entry (lifting themselves up).
Maybe i’ll try that in KSP.