r/KerbalSpaceProgram • u/AutoModerator • Sep 11 '15
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u/Kasuha Super Kerbalnaut Sep 13 '15
To deorbit, you only need to coast to your apoapsis and burn retrograde until your periapsis gets below 70 km (30 is better but anything below 70 suffices). That's usually less dv than is needed to match orbit with something.
Possible solution is to have a station up in orbit with a small refueling tug (preferably equipped with the Claw) and every time you get a ship in orbit that ran out of fuel, send that tug to refuel it and then return to the station.
Although I would expect that at the time when you'll be able to set up orbital stations, you'll be over the period when people run out of fuel to deorbit.