NASA plans to deorbit the ISS sometime around 2030. Building something the size of the ISS in orbit is a huge undertaking and NASA keeps talking about wanting to build new space stations or a moon base, so why not leave the ISS in space and reuse it rather than literally throw the whole thing away?
In: Planetary Science
The iss wasn’t designed to be in use indefinitely.
Continued use either means all future additions need to be downgraded to meet iss specs or the iss needs to be wholly upgraded….or replaced
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