The International Space Station is something of a problem child.

The International Space Station (ISS) is one of the most amazing accomplishments of mankind. As of early November 2024, this ...

SpaceX has won a contract to help destroy NASA's International Space Station - and it's set to take place sooner than you'd ...

The International Space Station (ISS) has had a leak since at least 2019 and NASA warns it could lead to a "catastrophic failure" if it's not fixed.

The data from the reboost, scheduled for Nov. 8, will help inform design for a larger Dragon to deorbit the ISS. Update: Dragon successfully completed the orbital reboost of the International ...

A controlled deorbit would allow the ISS to be brought down to Earth at a time and place of NASA's choosing, creating the lowest possible risk to people and infrastructure. This is the option NASA ...

“NASA anticipated that Roscosmos would commit to the Agency’s ISS deorbit plan — which requires a continued partnership through 2030 — in the summer of 2023. However, as of June ...

At 12:50 p.m. ET today (November 8), NASA and SpaceX monitored the Dragon spacecraft as it successfully demonstrated its ability to reboost the International Space Station, according to an agency ...

The milestone marks a symbolic beginning of the end for the ISS, as data from the maneuver will be used toward the design of the deorbit vehicle NASA has contracted SpaceX to construct to plunge ...

Related: FAA clears SpaceX to resume Falcon 9 rocket launches In July, SpaceX was tasked as the company to deorbit the ISS no earlier than 2030, once new commercial space stations are ready to ...

That deorbit vehicle will have triple the engines of a standard Dragon, but those engines will be the same units from SpaceX’s existing craft. Data obtained pushing the ISS around now will be ...

The Dragon is also not specifically designed to do this job, as its main task is to carry cargo, but the option to use it will give more data on eventual ISS deorbit plans. The Dragon arrived at ...