International Space Station (ISS), the largest artificial satellite in the world in space managed by five countries, will continue its services up to 2030 and then will plunge into uninhabited areas in the Pacific Ocean in January 2031, the AS Encourage Agency NASA has confirmed in New transition plan.
In a report released last week, NASA said the ISS would hit a part of the Pacific Ocean known as Nemo Point.
This is the farthest point of the land on earth, also known as a spacecraft funeral.
Many satellites and old spacecraft, including the Russian Mir space station, and other space debris have fallen there in 2001.
Iss will be replaced with a commercial station because NASA has signed an agreement with three private companies to launch a commercial space station for use by both private companies.
and government astronauts.
The new space station will be launched by Blue Origin, Nanoracks LLC and Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, said NASA.
The total estimate of the number of awards for the three agreements of the Funded Space Act was $ 415.6 million.
The commercial station is expected to operate in the late 2020s, before the ISS fell into the sea.
“The private sector is technically and financially able to develop and operate commercial low-earth orbit destinations, with the help of NASA.
We hope to share our learning experiences and operations with the private sector to help them develop safe, reliable, and cost-effective goals in space , “Phil Mcalister, Director of the Commercial Space at NASA headquarters, said in a statement.
Launched in 1998, the Lab Space weighs 420,000 kg (equivalent to more than 330 cars) and a length of 74 m and a width of 110 m, which is the same as the size of the soccer field.
ISS, which maintains orbits with an average height of 400 km by using reboot maneuvers, circles the earth in 93 minutes, completing 15.5 orbits per day.
For more than two decades, the ISS has served as a micro and environmental environment research laboratory where scientific research was conducted in astrobiology, astronomy, meteorology, physics and other fields.
The new space station has been hosting more than 200 astronauts from 19 countries and denied many scientific discoveries.
“The International Space Station enters the third and most productive decade as an innovative scientific platform in micro,” said Robyn Gentens, director of the International Space Station at NASA headquarters.
“Third decade is one of our results, building our successful global partnerships to verify human exploration and research technology to support deep extraterrestrial exploration, continue to restore medical and environmental benefits for humanity, and laid the foundation for the commercial future on the Low Earth in Earth.
Orbit.
We hope to maximize this return from the space station up to 2030 while planning a transition to commercial space destination that will follow, “he said.
The first ISS component was launched in 1998, and the first long-term occupants arrived on November 2, 2000 after being launched from Nyonur Cosmodrome on October 31, 2000.
Iss is the ninth space station that will be occupied by the crew, following the Soviets.
And then Russian Salyut, Almaz and Mir and American Skylab station.
The International Space Station for retirement in 2030, will fall to the Pacific Ocean a year later: NASA
