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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook_(structure)
Edit: better explanation imo
What is realistic: multiple of them as a “transfer device”, each one alternating between lifting payload up (lowering their own orbit) and slowing a payload down for orbital entry (lifting themselves up).
Maybe i’ll try that in KSP.