NASA considered four broad routes for retiring the International Space Station. Bringing it home is logistically difficult. Parking it higher needs substantial propulsion and faces orbital-debris hazards. An uncontrolled fall poses a public risk. A controlled re-entry targets surviving hardware at a remote ocean region.
Current planning: operations through 2030 and re-entry around late 2030 or early 2031. Dates can change, including if the replacement-station transition is delayed. The crew returns before the final burn.
Sources:
https://www.nasa.gov/faqs-the-international-space-station-transition-plan/
https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/iss-deorbit-analysis-summary.pdf
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-selects-international-space-station-us-deorbit-vehicle/
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-107805
Visual credits: NASA ISS and Earth archive; NASA/Don Pettit spacewalk; NASA/Joel Kowsky Crew-7 return; SpaceX deorbit-vehicle concept reproduced via collectSPACE; Natural Earth maps; Epicpanda65 CC0 paper texture. Re-entry and fragmentation graphics illustrate future plans.
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Current planning: operations through 2030 and re-entry around late 2030 or early 2031. Dates can change, including if the replacement-station transition is delayed. The crew returns before the final burn.
Sources:
https://www.nasa.gov/faqs-the-international-space-station-transition-plan/
https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/iss-deorbit-analysis-summary.pdf
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-selects-international-space-station-us-deorbit-vehicle/
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-107805
Visual credits: NASA ISS and Earth archive; NASA/Don Pettit spacewalk; NASA/Joel Kowsky Crew-7 return; SpaceX deorbit-vehicle concept reproduced via collectSPACE; Natural Earth maps; Epicpanda65 CC0 paper texture. Re-entry and fragmentation graphics illustrate future plans.
#ISS #Space #NASA #UnderStack
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