Retirement time for the ISS is approaching. Having hosted hundreds of astronauts from nineteen countries since 2000, the date of arrival of the first crew, the space laboratory should close its doors at the end of 2030 in accordance with a schedule set by NASA and its partners. The car (at least what is left of it) will be desorbed next year and will complete its odyssey in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, at “Point Nemo”. Named after the famous submarine commander, invented by Jules Verne in twenty thousand leagues under the seait is the furthest point in the ocean from any land surface.
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For this complex operation, NASA and its partners – the Russian, European, Canadian and Japanese space agencies – have already planned everything. According to an agency report presented to the US Congress last year, three Russian Progress cargo spacecraft should theoretically be used to tow the ISS to deorbit the spacecraft. The US spacecraft Cygnus is then to take over to carry the 400 tons of the ISS to the famous “Point Nemo”. But by then, things could still change.
Indeed, as reported space.com, the US agency wants to purchase its own space tug. Last summer, the head of the Russian Space Agency, Yuri Borisov, said that Russia would leave the space laboratory “after 2024” and create its own orbital station, without setting a specific release date. These statements were likely taken into account by NASA, as was the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the American media emphasize. Space leaves no room for uncertainty, and thus NASA intends to protect itself from a possible last-minute departure.
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