The ISS will plunge to its death in 2031. NASA just announced its final resting place. Read more:
that's meant eventually to become the springboard for a stand-alone space station.
Some of the space station's modules could be split off to become part of other orbital outposts during the transition. The report lays out a plan for shifting operations to those new outposts and gradually lowering the orbit of the old station's remaining modules during the latter half of the 2020s, building up to a climax in 2030.
Ground controllers would manage the station's descent so that the final, fiery plunge through the atmosphere occurred in early 2031 over aPoint Nemo – a spot that's situated between New Zealand and the coast of Chile, 1,670 miles away from the nearest speck of land – would be the target point for falling debris.
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