NASA seeks proposals for a spacecraft meant to safely deorbit the ISS
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So the The entire Space station could be outfitted with Xeon Gas storage tanks for station keeping usage and other gases for the instrument packages and that utilized for whatever needs that.
Another option is to take individual modules off and make smaller platforms for more global coverage and make more individual platforms for smaller individual Geo-synchronous orbital platforms.
One other option is reconfigure that as one giant deep space probe powered by Xenon Thrusters and slap some space nuclear reactor in that and loads of deep space antennas there and observation equipment and use an initial chemical rocket to get that up to escape velocity before that cuts out and the Xenon thrusters are engaged.
And one question, are all the modules on the Current ISS past their usable lifecycle and are no longer useful for any new station construction?
Maybe we could raise it to a graveyard orbit, as a historical artifact?
In a time where tensions are increasing and everybody abandons nuclear disarmament treaties, it seems like a good idea to keep it as a reminder that an end of the cold war was possible and what we can achieve as friends not as enemies.
Maybe as a monument to whoever finds what remains of the planet afterwards.
If it could help, it's worth the effort to at least try, otherwise why bother doing anything.
And it's not just orbiting, it's orbiting with style.
Then again, maybe it just wasn’t a good idea to have a space station in the first place. But for the cost of sending the materials that far, it seems like it would be worth while to tow the thing into a lunar orbit. There it might be useful. It just cost so much!
An Earth-Mars cycler would be interesting too but something tells me it’s probably in entirely the wrong orbit to be sent into that kind of trajectory without crazy delta-V.
Then deorbit it.
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