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"A long-standing guideline for deorbiting satellites within 25 years, criticized by many in the space industry for being too long, is still effective for reducing the growth of orbital debris so long as satellite operators abide by it, according to an orbital debris expert. Guidelines for mitigating orbital debris, including one at the international level published in 2007 by the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee, recommend that satellites in low Earth orbit be deorbited no more than 25 years after the end of operations to minimize the risk of collisions that would create debris. That 25-year guideline was maintained in an update to U.S. government orbital debris standard practices released in December. Even before that recent update, though, many in the space industry argued that the 25-year timeframe was too long, given the growing population of objects in low Earth orbit and projections for future growth in the number of satellites. They called for reducing the period in which satellites should be deorbited to as little as 5 to 10 years, although, there’s little consensus about what that revised timeframe should be."

You think like a politician....connotation : "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYJdsPsnyNo

Or.... You could develop on Earth a suite of produciton equipements that that combined can pretty much replicate all of itself. Then you make it upgrade itself, increase precision and capacities. At about this stage it can open itself up for rental of it's production capacity to individuals and or firms to make it pay for it's own operations. And maybe provide a little return for the operator. Such can eventually account for a production run of it's own parts to form a kit that's sent with assembly instructions to a "lesser fortunate" Asgardian. If they was to follow suit then two machines will become four. Eight. Sixteen. Thirty two - etc. These can be networked, to allow for distributed production runs to complete orders faster and to allow the closest unit to the end customer to be used. As the network reaches sufficient capacity of the "right" level of production quality a distributed run can be pushed across and the system to place into orbit can be produced overnight, and shipped to lauch point for assembly. It's possible the operation of these machines could even pay for the launch, too. Worst case, is it can additionally develop launch hardware and we just provide fuel. That can then become fed with LEO debris to build a clone of itself and some other equipement more suitable for mining, ready for launching out to the belt where the real mining can begin... the entire operation could be made to find itself if we can secure payment for safely de-orbiting various peieces of debris various companies have irresponsibly left in orbit. Some of these are in very problematic locations and their removal would be sought.