The ISS Will Be Destroyed in 2030

[themechanic]

 

[Photon440]

Yep, NASA mentioned that last summer. Nothing lasts forever. The actual de-orbit is the responsibility of all five space agencies involved. Twenty-four years so far is pretty good.

 

[Detective D]

A sad end, but it has given us a lot of scientific data and enabled a lot of experiments we would not have been able to do otherwise.
I recall when this was first being discussed in the 1980's, and then hearing about how it was going to happen, and then the various "additions" that went on over the years.

I hope they will build a new one with all the things learned from the old one. Not just little private funded wanker satelites, but a legit international effort. I truly think if mankind is to explore the stars money and national borders will need to be overlooked, somehow, to push the experimentation and tech needed to make it possible. Thta is a very "sci fi" opinion, and altruistic maybe, but there is a ton of fiction written based in the reality of how monumental the effort would be, and why that level of collaboration is the only way it would come about. In this case, I think these fiction writings are a glimpse of reality, and would certainly not be the first time with some of these that something written 50 years ago somehow comes to pass or comes into existence as tech catches up to someone's imagination.

Space truly is the last frontier, and it sparks the imagination to think of what could be possible.