[yeuxardents]

Trying to remember what it was called but there was a 60/70s era program that was declassified that claimed to capture returning satellites from orbit using massive nets/parachutes carried behind large aircraft for example a c47 that would snap them right out of the air as they are falling.

[iancmceachern]

Corona. They caught film canisters from spy satellites with nets hanging from planes

[signatoremo]

That’s capturing film reels dropped from Anerican spy satellites during the Cold War. They were tiny compared to this gigantic balloon

https://www.historynet.com/spy-intelligence-from-the-sky/