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mlg ,
@mlg@lemmy.world avatar

Just give it to some KSP players lol.

They’ll figure out a cheap way to either send it on a near vertical entry path into the ocean, or a 150 year multi planet gravity sling into the sun.

doubtingtammy ,

Perfect metaphor for the US space program as a whole

WalnutLum ,

The ISS is aging, and for safety’s sake, NASA intends to incinerate the immense facility around 2031. To accomplish the job, the agency will pay SpaceX up to $843 million, according to a statement released on June 26.

See you guys in 2040

WorkingClassCorpse ,

Ngl, $843M seems kinda low for something like this

doubtingtammy ,

That’s like 1-2 urban highway interchanges

yogthos ,
@yogthos@lemmy.ml avatar

Once ISS deorbits, China will have the only space station around.

pingveno ,

There is already planning to have a replacement in place by then.

yogthos ,
@yogthos@lemmy.ml avatar

Burgerland can’t even build a bridge, you think it’s capable of building a whole space station? 😂

pingveno ,

Huh? We are constantly building bridges, what a weird claim. But of course the US is quite capable of launching another space station.

yogthos ,
@yogthos@lemmy.ml avatar

sure, sure fox10phoenix.com/…/baltimore-bridge-rebuild-possi…

pingveno ,

So what you’re saying is that the US can build bridges?

yogthos ,
@yogthos@lemmy.ml avatar

If you think that taking a decade to build a bridge illustrates US capacity to build bridges effectively, then sure.

sunzu ,

This job seems to be more fitting for Boeing

acosmichippo ,
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

they have to build it from scratch to do that though.

sunzu ,

Why do u hate america?

Num10ck ,

or MrBeast

sunzu ,

Guy is a better businessman than entire Boeing executive team tbh

SuiXi3D ,
@SuiXi3D@fedia.io avatar

Isn’t it in a low enough orbit that it should just come down and burn up eventually anyway? Seems like they could save a lot of money that way…

emergencyfood ,

It’s big enough that not all of it will burn up. And you don’t want the debris to hit someone.

SuiXi3D ,
@SuiXi3D@fedia.io avatar

Gotcha, makes sense.

hemko ,

There will be shit falling down due to it’s size, so the deorbit has to be controlled

Alexstarfire ,

To add to what others have said already, much smaller batteries, though think like lantern sized, didn’t burn up on re-entry and damaged someone’s house. NASA is already paying for that.

fox ,

They’re gonna fuck it up and crash it into Lima, I’m calling it

PolandIsAStateOfMind ,
@PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml avatar

Plot twist: deorbit vehicle will be cybertruck

ChicoSuave ,

If a chunk of ISS falls and damages something or hurts a person, who is liable: the organization that put it up there or the one paid to take it down?

ken27238 ,
@ken27238@lemmy.ml avatar

Per the contract once spacex builds and docks the deorbit vehicle to the ISS they are hand over ownership of it to NASA. So NASA would be responsible.

Lexam ,

Not from the Onion. Also that seems a little low for a space mission.

weew ,

Because it isn’t a Boeing contract

Zachariah ,
@Zachariah@lemmy.world avatar

SpaceX has won the right to tackle a monumental task: destroying the International Space Station (ISS). The demolition will shove the iconic and enormous station down through Earth’s atmosphere in a fiery display. And if anything goes wrong, a cascade of debris could rain down on our planet’s surface.

Conceived and built in a post-cold-war partnership with Russia, the ISS, like so many of NASA’s major projects, has lasted far longer than its initial design life of 15 years. Nothing lasts forever, however, especially in the harsh environment of outer space. The ISS is aging, and for safety’s sake, NASA intends to incinerate the immense facility around 2031. To accomplish the job, the agency will pay SpaceX up to $843 million, according to a statement released on June 26. The contract covers the development of a unique deorbit vehicle to usher the unwieldy ISS to its doom yet excludes launch costs.

LarkinDePark ,

This is the international one that the US refuses to allow China to participate in?

protist ,

Why should they?

Aradina ,

“International” is a word that implies internationalness.

protist ,

Participating countries:


<span style="color:#323232;"> Brazil (1997–2007)
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Canada
</span><span style="color:#323232;">European Space Agency
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     Belgium
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     Denmark
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     France
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     Germany
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     Italy
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     Netherlands
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     Norway
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     Spain
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     Sweden
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      Switzerland
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     United Kingdom
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Japan
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> Russia
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> United States
</span>
Triton420 ,

International doesn’t mean every nation

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