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18 lip 2024 · NASA considered this when determining if any part of the station could be salvaged for historical preservation or technical analysis. The station’s modules and truss structure were not designed to be easily disassembled in space.
27 cze 2024 · The space station has been permanently crewed since 2000. Nasa has selected Elon Musk's SpaceX company to bring down the International Space Station at the end of its life. The California-based ...
27 cze 2024 · Nasa has selected Elon Musk's SpaceX company to bring down the International Space Station at the end of its life. The California-based company will build a vehicle capable of pushing the 430 ...
18 lip 2024 · Astronauts still would be aboard as it’s gradually lowered. Six months before the station’s destruction, the crew would abandon ship and return home. Once the station is down to about 137 miles (220 kilometers), the Dragon would bring it down four days later.
So the ISS will join a host of other retired space hardware in a watery grave in the Pacific Ocean. It will be brought down in place known as Point Nemo, or the Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility. Situated between New Zealand and South America, it is 2,688 kilometres from the nearest land.
18 lip 2024 · The five agencies share responsibility for safely deorbiting the ISS. According to Bowersox, all five partners agreed on the U.S. DV concept as the right spacecraft for the mission.
27 lip 2024 · For the time being the plan remains to dispose of the entire ISS into the Pacific Ocean, a dramatic end to a decades-long display of human ingenuity and collaboration in space.
