{"id":7019,"date":"2022-01-13T20:02:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T20:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7019"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:02:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T20:02:59","slug":"the-space-station-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7019","title":{"rendered":"The space station race"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“NASA wants to get out of the expensive business of running the \u201990s-era space station. The ISS is the size of a football field<\/a> and costs as much as $4 billion<\/a> annually to operate, and NASA estimates that relocating its astronauts to commercial alternatives could save about $1 billion<\/a> every year. Newer space stations will be smaller than the ISS and include newer tech, and NASA would only need to pay for the portion that it uses.And once these replacements are launched into orbit, the space agency can finally dispose of the ISS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re looking at ISS technology that was designed beginning in the \u201980s, built in the \u201990s, and launched in the \u201990s and 2000s,\u201d Wendy Whitman Cobb, a professor at the US Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, told Recode. \u201cThis is definitely aging.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plan is to deorbit the ISS right over an area called Point Nemo in the South Pacific Ocean, which is the world\u2019s farthest point from land<\/a>. This will be a delicate process, and could take up to three years. After letting gravity pull the ISS downward to a critical height of 155 miles above Earth, NASA will organize one final flight to remove any remaining research (or astronauts). Soon afterward, ISS operators will use a cargo spacecraft to push the ISS into the atmosphere. While most of the space station should burn off, \u201ca number of high-density payload and structural components\u201d are likely to break through intact, according to NASA spokesperson Stephanie Schierholz.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/22839485\/space-station-iss-orbit-satellites<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“NASA wants to get out of the expensive business of running the \u201990s-era space station. The ISS is the size of a football field and costs as much as $4 billion annually to operate, and NASA estimates that relocating its astronauts to commercial alternatives could save about $1 billion every year. Newer space stations will be smaller than the ISS and include newer tech, and NASA would only need to pay for the portion that it uses. And once these replacements are launched into orbit, the space agency can finally dispose of the ISS.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re looking at ISS technology that was designed beginning in the \u201980s, built in the \u201990s, and launched in the \u201990s and 2000s,\u201d Wendy Whitman Cobb, a professor at the US Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, told Recode. \u201cThis is definitely aging.\u201d<\/p>\n

The plan is to deorbit the ISS right over an area called Point Nemo in the South Pacific Ocean, which is the world\u2019s farthest point from land. This will be a delicate process, and could take up to three years. After letting gravity pull the ISS downward to a critical height of 155 miles above Earth, NASA will organize one final flight to remove any remaining research (or astronauts). Soon afterward, ISS operators will use a cargo spacecraft to push the ISS into the atmosphere. While most of the space station should burn off, \u201ca number of high-density payload and structural components\u201d are likely to break through intact, according to NASA spokesperson Stephanie Schierholz.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1446,955,954],"class_list":["post-7019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-international-space-station","tag-nasa","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7020,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7019\/revisions\/7020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}