llamacoffee@lemmy.worldM to Spaceflight@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 months agoNASA has a fine plan for deorbiting the ISS—unless Russia gets in the wayarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up151arrow-down12file-textcross-posted to: nasa@lemmy.world
arrow-up149arrow-down1external-linkNASA has a fine plan for deorbiting the ISS—unless Russia gets in the wayarstechnica.comllamacoffee@lemmy.worldM to Spaceflight@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square25fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: nasa@lemmy.world
minus-squareViperActual@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoAt the rate things are going, just launch a kitted out Starship and have that serve as a temporary space station. That should tide us over for however long it takes to design, build, and launch a newer station.
minus-squareWolfLink@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoThe bottleneck to a new station is nobody wants to fund such a project.
At the rate things are going, just launch a kitted out Starship and have that serve as a temporary space station. That should tide us over for however long it takes to design, build, and launch a newer station.
The bottleneck to a new station is nobody wants to fund such a project.