International Space Station (International Space Station) The International Space Station, a space laboratory and research facility, has been orbiting the Earth since 1998, when the first segment was sent into orbit. The space station is scheduled to be officially decommissioned in 2030.
The National Center for Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA A major contributor to the International Space Station (ISS) has revealed that the space station is nearing the end of its useful life. According to the plan, contracts worth up to US$843 million (about 30 billion baht) are being offered. SpaceX SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, is designed to take space stations out of orbit and return them to Earth. And to sink them safely to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
According to NASA's plans, SpaceX will build a specially designed spacecraft. Its mission is to push or pull the ISS out of its current orbit and return it to Earth. The exact date and time for this mission have not yet been determined. But it will be completed in 2030 or early 2031, according to the official date for the space station to be decommissioned.
at present The International Space Station is the largest man-made object orbiting the Earth. At 109 meters long and weighing 450 tons, it is deteriorating with age. It has begun to experience numerous technical glitches and leaks. An out-of-this-world laboratory where more than 3,300 scientific experiments have been conducted, the space station faces an increasing risk of collision with space debris.
The decommissioned space station was brought back to Earth this time. It is not the first time in the past, it was presented Mir space station (Mir) Russia returns to the world and the remaining pieces sink to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean in 2001.
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– www.nasa.go
– space.com