Question: In which of the following year US space agency has planned to destroy the International Space Station?
a) 2022
b) 2024
c) 2030
d) 2031
Answer: (d)
Related Facts:
- NASA has recently announced that it has decided to retire International Space Station.
- According to the NASA’s plan the International Space Station (ISS) will plunge into the sea in January 2031,
- The orbiting laboratory ISS, which was launched in 1998, will splash-land at the Point Nemo.
- Point Nemo is an inhabited area in the Pacific Ocean 1,678 miles (2,700 kilometers) from land.
- It is the final resting place for many dead satellites and space stations.
- It should be known that Russia’s Mir Space station, USA’s previous space station Skylab and many other satellites of other countries plunged here at Point Nemo. The new expiration date for the ISS has been declared by the NASA due to a Biden Administration commitment to extend support for the space station’s operations until 2030.
- This time, the space agency announced a new transition plan for low-Earth orbit science.
- In the lead-up to the decommissioning of the ISS, NASA has signed agreements with three private companies to launch commercial space stations.
- Future new space stations will come in for use by both private companies and government astronauts.
- NASA said. That these new commercial space stations will be launched by Blue Origin, Nanoracks LLC and Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation.
- They’re expected to be operational by the end of the year 2030, before the ISS falls into the sea in January 2031.
By – Rajesh Tripathi
Links:-
https://www.livescience.com/international-space-station-deorbit-water-grave-date