The space station is scheduled for retirement by 2030 and must be deorbited safely to prevent it from crashing onto populated areas.
The ISS will remain operational until 2030. After which, the space station has to be deorbited in a safe manner to prevent the lab from falling onto populated areas. To do that, NASA is suggesting a “new spacecraft design or modification to an existing spacecraft that must function on its first flight and have sufficient redundancy and anomaly recovery capability to continue the critical deorbit burn,” the space agency wrote.
In other words, NASA is requesting a design for either a new spacecraft or tweaks to an existing one that must operate successfully during its initial mission and possess the necessary backup systems and error-correcting capabilities to carry out the deorbit maneuver. The spacecraft will likely be designed to serve as an orbital transfer vehicle, essentially acting as a “space tug.
At the time, NASA officials said that the current ISS deorbiting model still involves the Russian spacecraft. “But we are also developing this U.S. capability as a way to have redundancy and be able to better aid the targeting of the vehicle and the safe return of the vehicle,” Kathy Lueders, associate administrator for NASA Space Operations, told Gizmodo during a call on March 13.The U.S. Deorbit Vehicle will take years to develop, test and certify, NASA wrote in Wednesday’s statement.
Following the ISS’ retirement, NASA plans on maintaining a presence in low Earth orbit via a commercial model that serves both public and private interests. In December 2021, to Blue Origin, Nanoracks, and Northrop Grumman to develop space station designs that will succeed the ISS.
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