llamacoffee@lemmy.worldM to Spaceflight@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 13 days agoNASA has a fine plan for deorbiting the ISS—unless Russia gets in the wayarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up151arrow-down12file-text
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 · 13 days agomessage-square24fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareViperActual@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·13 days 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-up1·13 days 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.