With our Star Trek level tractor beam. Of course, maybe we wouldn’t want to reveal that kind of capability to the world just yet.
I was thinking more James Bond. High Altitude Jet Pack.
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.
Corona. They caught film canisters from spy satellites with nets hanging from planes
That’s capturing film reels dropped from Anerican spy satellites during the Cold War. They were tiny compared to this gigantic balloon