It might be marginally more feasible to build an enormous space tether (https://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/wtether.html). By dragging it through Earth's magnetic field (which extends out past the moon on the "downstream" side of the solar wind), you could: 1) generate large quantities of electricity, which would be extracted by orbital energy 2) use that electricity in some useful way to further slow momentum (like powering some of the ion engines they talk about in the article).

Anyone with a stronger physics background want to do the math and tell me why this won't work (or at least be marginally better than the proposal in the article?)