[Moonman62]

Also, it would probably be cheaper to build and launch a replacement satellite.

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A smart FReeper once said that was the case with the Hubble space telescope.

One good thing about the SpaceX recovered stages is a rocket launch using one would be dirt cheap compared to other launch services.

[Purdue77]

The difference with Hubble though is that it was designed from the start to be captured by the shuttle and repaired on-orbit. MUOS 5 wasn't. So, how do you repair a broken satellite that wasn't designed for on-orbit repair? In this case, you might want to have something that could retrieve it and bring it back to earth for repair, preferably unmanned.

Think of this though. If we had something that could retrieve and return payloads from space, the Chinese and others would be claiming that we had a space weapon.