Once the functions of the International Space Station (ISS) end, approximately in 2030, the SpaceX company will be in charge of its destruction by NASA, through an agreement of approximately 843 million dollars.

The United States space agency confirmed that Elon Musk’s company will build the “vehicle that will be responsible for deorbiting the International Space Station once it reaches the end of its useful life.”

The station’s retirement has been planned by NASA and the space agencies of Europe, Canada, Japan and Russia. The date has changed. However, it is known that the “retirement” process of the ISS will begin between 2026 and 2028 with the progressive withdrawal of personnel.

“Starting in January 2030, the process to empty the International Space Station will begin. First, the equipment that is part of the orbiting laboratory will be removed, while between June and November the last crew will be removed. NASA has established a line at 280 kilometers altitude as the point of no return for the ISS. This means that once you cross it, your final destination will be sealed.”

M.Pino

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NASA has requested proposals from the space industry to build a craft to safely deorbit the International Space Station as part of its planned retirement.

The United States, Japan, Canada and the participating countries of the ESA (European Space Agency) have committed to operating the station until 2030, and Russia until at least 2028. The orbital complex began construction in 1998 and has been continuously inhabited since 2000. It is as big as a football field: 100 meters long and 80 meters wide, and weighs 455 tons.

Once the International Space Station program is completed, the station will be deorbited in a controlled manner to prevent debris from crashing into populated areas.

Russian Progress cargo ships ruled out

NASA and its partners previously developed a preliminary strategy and action plan that evaluated the use of multiple Roscomos Progress cargo spacecraft to support deorbit operations. “These efforts now indicate that a new spacecraft solution would provide more robust capabilities for responsible deorbitation.” To begin the development of this new spacecraft, NASA has now published a request for proposal, as explained in a statement.

The USDV (US Deorbitation Vehicle) focuses on the final deorbiting activity. It will be a new spacecraft design or a modification of an existing spacecraft that must function on its first flight and have sufficient redundancy and anomaly recovery capability to continue the critical deorbitation process. As with any development effort of this size, USDV will take years to develop, test and certify.

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NASA reported that on Saturday, August 28 at 3:37 a.m., a Falcon 9 rocket will take off from a Kennedy Space Center platform, with the cargo capsule at its peak.

The twenty-third commercial supply mission of the laboratory aims to transfer a variety of scientific materials and supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), which will be carried out through a Dragon box from SpaceX.

Materials that provide protection from radiation will also be transferred, such as “concrete, fiberglass composites and substances that can offer radiation protection to investigate how they respond to the harsh environment of space.”

According to the information released by NASA, with the transfer of these materials, a “study on the prevention and treatment of bone density loss” may be carried out. In addition, it will be developed a study that will allow the examination of some “diagnostic devices that could detect and mitigate vision disorders.”

This takeoff after the final suspension of the Starliner capsule, recently carried out, due to the detection of faiilure in 13 valves of the propulsion system. But the engineers decided “they decided to disassemble the capsule of the Atlas V rocket to transfer it to a ship where they would open four of those valves that still remained closed, and to carry out a “deep analysis.”

M. Rodríguez

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