NASA awarded SpaceX $843 million to build a vehicle capable of pushing the International Space Station into Earth's atmosphere for its planned destruction around 2030, it said on Wednesday (June 26), a task originally meant for Russia's thrusters.
SpaceX logo and Elon Musk photo are seen in this illustration taken on December 19, 2022NASA awarded SpaceX $843 million to build a vehicle capable of pushing the International Space Station into Earth's atmosphere for its planned destruction around 2030, it said on Wednesday , a task originally meant for Russia's thrusters.
The US, Japan, Canada and the countries under the European Space Agency have committed to the space station partnership through 2030, while Russia has agreed to remain a partner through 2028, the date through which the Russian space agency Roscosmos believes its hardware can last. Those Russian thrusters were originally meant to push the ISS into Earth's atmosphere at the end of its life. But in recent years Nasa has sought its own deorbit abilities should Russia bow out of the alliance earlier than planned or become unable to do the task itself.
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