NASA has released a request for proposal from U.S. industry for the U.S. Deorbit Vehicle (USDV), a spacecraft meant to safely deorbit the International Space Station as part of its planned retirement.
  • Hirom@beehaw.org
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    9 months ago

    Deorbiting is the best option. But still I wish there was a better way, there’s a lot of material and it took lot of energy to put into orbit. Hopefully one day there’ll be satellite scrapping/recycling services in orbit, to provide resources for orbital shipyards.