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NASA and SpaceX Will Destroy the International Space Station. Here’...

The world will be watching—literally—as SpaceX tackles possibly what might be its highest-stakes endeavor to date: safely destroying the beloved International Space StationNASA Selects SpaceX to Destroy the International Space Station

The world will be watching—literally—as SpaceX tackles possibly what might be its highest-stakes endeavor to date: safely destroying the beloved International Space Station

By Meghan Bartels


Editor’s Note (6/28/24): The design of the deorbit vehicle that will be used to destroy the International Space Station will be rooted in that of SpaceX’s Dragon capsule, said Bill Spetch, operations integration manager for NASA’s International Space Station Program, during a press conference that the agency held today to discuss a range of issues related to the space station. “That’s based off a Dragon-heritage design,” he said of the forthcoming vehicle. “Obviously they have to do some modifications and some changes to the trunk for that, but that is the plan.”

SpaceX has won the right to tackle a monumental task: destroying the International Space Station (ISS). The demolition will shove the iconic and enormous station down through Earth’s atmosphere in a fiery display. And if anything goes wrong, a cascade of debris could rain down on our planet’s surface.

Conceived and built in a post-cold-war partnership with Russia, the ISS, like so many of NASA’s major projects, has lasted far longer than its initial design life of 15 years. Nothing lasts forever, however, especially in the harsh environment of outer space. The ISS is aging, and for safety’s sake, NASA intends to incinerate the immense facility around 2031. To accomplish the job, the agency will pay SpaceX up to $843 million, according to a statement released on June 26. The contract covers the development of a unique deorbit vehicle to usher the unwieldy ISS to its doom yet excludes launch costs.

NASA has declined to provide the number of proposals received for the projects. Currently, no details about SpaceX’s vision for the deorbit vehicle are publicly known. Scientific American reached out to the company but did not receive a response by publication.

What’s clear is that SpaceX’s existing Dragon and Starship spacecraft aren’t good matches for the deorbit mission. That means the company could intend to heavily adapt one of these vehicles or to start from scratch and design a custom-built craft.

Whatever the deorbit vehicle ends up looking like, SpaceX is taking on a delicate technical challenge. The ISS is perhaps the most complex construction project ever executed—and certainly the largest and most expensive one in space. Beginning in 1998 its modules required 42 different launches to blast off Earth. And the orbiting laboratory contains about as much internal space as a six-bedroom house spread over an area the size of a football field. Weighing more than 450 tons, or the equivalent of nearly three large blue whales, the ISS is heavy, too. Safely destroying the space station arguably will be even harder than assembling it.

The ISS should still have several years of science ahead. NASA has said it intends to operate the space station through 2030 and that its partner space agencies in Canada, Europe and Japan concur with that time line. Russia’s Roscosmos, which leads the ISS partnership with NASA and operates several key modules of the station, is currently only committed through at least 2028.

Dave from down under wrote: ↑Wed Jul 10, 2024 8:32 pm That would cost more…

the Tesla's husk was towed away.

On Tuesday, July 16, Musk announced he would move SpaceX's headquarters to Texas, writing that the astronautics company would move to "Starbase, Texas."

As Starbase, Texas is not a real city, many locals in the area are demanding that their area be properly represented.

"Where exactly is 'Starbase, TX'? Is he renaming Boca Chica or is he just buying some land and creating an unincorporated place?" wrote ProfSaintBernard on Reddit.

p0rtia wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2024 9:09 pm Screenshot 2024-07-23 at 9.09.20 PM.png

Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2024 10:44 pm I think he needs his meds adjusted.

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Wed Jun 12, 2024 8:30 pm

Elon Musk has unusual relationships with women at SpaceX, WSJ reports
Elon Musk allegedly had sex with a former intern and an employee. He asked a third woman to have his babies.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/12/2417 ... ationships

Estiveo wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2024 8:54 pm PAB

MikeDunford wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 12:07 am

Estiveo wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2024 8:54 pm PAB

Wait, Elon's not paying someone money he promised to pay? Shocking, if true.