The international space station will be out of orbit in January 2031 and then fall into the South The Pacific Securities Co.Ltd(601099) .
According to NBC news recently reported that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) plans to retire the international space station and fall into the South The Pacific Securities Co.Ltd(601099) in 2031. NASA plans to locate the site in the South The Pacific Securities Co.Ltd(601099) uninhabited area called point Nemo, an open area east of New Zealand.
Controlled de orbiting is a key method to remove retired space stations and satellites from low earth orbit. Most of them will be burned when they pass through the earth’s atmosphere, but space debris will also fall.
NBC News reported that the remote waters of The Pacific Securities Co.Ltd(601099) are sometimes referred to as “spacecraft cemeteries”, which are often destinations for space agencies and aerospace companies to deliberately take obsolete or scrapped spacecraft out of orbit. Because the location is far from any land, these sea areas are considered to be relatively safe places for space debris to fall.
However, the Russian “energy” rocket and space group released a news that “the life of the international space station and the date of off orbit collision and destruction are decided by the governments of partner countries under the international space station program, not by one of them alone.”
The international space station is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency, the Russian Federal Space Agency, the Canadian Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. It was launched in 1998 and completed in 2011. Astronauts from 19 countries have been on duty in rotation since 2000.
The space station was originally scheduled to retire in 2024, but NASA Director Bill Nelson has always advocated extending the use of the international space station until 2030. At the end of last year, the White House also announced plans to extend the operation of the space station to 2030.
During this period, the space station will continue to operate. NASA said it plans to continue research on the international space station in the remaining years, while using orbital laboratories to support deep space exploration. Phil McAlister, head of commercial aerospace at NASA headquarters, also said in a statement that “we look forward to sharing lessons learned and operational experience with the private sector to help them develop safe, reliable and cost-effective space destinations.”
Nelson once said that once the international space station is finally decommissioned, NASA hopes that the commercial space station can operate in orbit. “We hope that the space station will continue as a government project until 2030, and then be replaced by the commercial space station.”
According to UPI, NASA announced last December that it had signed agreements with three US companies to develop and design new space stations and other commercial space destinations.
