[thatcat]

That would just be a shittier, illegal version of the oreshnik system

[grey-area]

Clearly you would need permission from the government who owned the sea, in which case it would not be illegal.

Capsules land with shaped ablative heat shields all the time so it seems proven but the hard part would be making one off earth.

Maybe they’ll just send a small capsule up though and return the metals with that.

[thatcat]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty I was referring to military application

Existing system https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pYKDNSYw1NQ