ISS to be de-orbited by 2030

[Red Squirrel]

NASA Selects International Space Station US Deorbit Vehicle - NASA

NASA is fostering continued scientific, educational, and technological developments in low Earth orbit to benefit humanity, while also supporting deep space

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The end of an era. It would be cool if they brought it down in sections to put it in a museum instead of letting it burn up, but I guess the cost and logistics of that would be pretty insane. Could probably use Starship to do that.

Going to be quite the show to watch that come down though, I'm sure they will stream it.

 

[pete6032]

NASA Selects International Space Station US Deorbit Vehicle - NASA

NASA is fostering continued scientific, educational, and technological developments in low Earth orbit to benefit humanity, while also supporting deep space

www.nasa.gov

The end of an era. It would be cool if they brought it down in sections to put it in a museum instead of letting it burn up, but I guess the cost and logistics of that would be pretty insane. Could probably use Starship to do that.

Going to be quite the show to watch that come down though, I'm sure they will stream it.

It might be cheaper to build a duplicate on the ground and put that in a museum.

 

[Brainonska511]

And how would they bring it down in sections? You'd need some sort of new (expensive) space shuttle, and it looks like some segments were put into orbit on separate rockets.

Sad to see the project ending, but 2030 would be a little over 30 years from when it first went operational.

 

[biostud]

Send it to the moon for cheap base.

 

[IronWing]

 

[BoomerD]

I remember the SkyLab shit…funny as hell.

At this point, just strap a couple of low power booster rockets to it…push it into the sun.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

I remember the SkyLab shit…funny as hell.

At this point, just strap a couple of low power booster rockets to it…push it into the sun.

Ironically it's very hard to get something to the sun. It costs far less delta-v to exit our solar system than to get to the sun.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Send it out looking for V _ _ _ ger.