The reason Elon Musk wants the ISS station to stop working early

Last summer, Musk’s SpaceX Company was chosen to develop and provide vehicles to pull the ISS station from the orbit with the cost of $ 843 million. It is expected that both tugs and space stations will be destroyed during the recovery process.

For decades, the ISS station has been an international collaborative project to study scientific and floating hundreds of kilometers from the Earth’s surface. The Canadian Space Agency, the European Space Agency (ESA), the Japanese Space Discovery Agency (Jaxa), Russia’s Roscosmos Space Group and NASA operate the station since 1998. Around the Earth 90 minutes per round, the ISS station continuously had people from November 2000 and more than 270 astronauts visited the station. But the existence of the station is limited by the main structure, affected by the transplant and separate from the spacecraft as well as the hot and cold condition in the orbit.

NASA has reviewed a number of options to stop operating the ISS station, including disassembly and taken to the Earth, pushing into a higher orbit, to decompose naturally in orbit and random return, controlled falling. down to the remote sea. While the United States, Japan, Canada and Jaxa committed to operating the station by 2030, Russia is the only country committed to continuing to operate on the station at least until 2028. Toan is the common responsibility of all 5 space agencies.

During the time at the ISS station, the astronauts conducted thousands of experiments that could not be done on Earth. In many ways, ISS contributes to the birth of SpaceX. ISS is a milestone of space trade, from crew and goods to trade research and lessons on the station to help transmit fire to future commercial stations, NASA said.

Some parts of the large space stations of the football field will be kept. To stop the station’s operation, NASA will combine to gradually reduce the natural height with the return of the book to control the size of the debris from the space station and bring it to the unmanned area in the ocean.

“Because this final operation requires a large push of fuel, the natural traction of the Earth’s atmosphere will be used as much as possible to lower the height of the station while the arrangement of the orbit. All astronauts return to the Earth safely and perform a number of small operations to direct the debris to the unaccompanied waters, the operators of the space station will send the command to burn the engine, “NASA for NASA know. The debris will fall to the bottom of the sea and do not cause any significant impact in the long term.

According to Musk, the ISS station has met the goal. The stopping of the ISS station will help release NASA to focus on resolving the priority task of flying to Mars. He also said that focusing on the moon was “a distraction”. However, the Artemis program aimed at bringing the astronaut back to the moon is considered as a stepping stone for future mission to Mars.