NASA To Retire International Space Station By Crashing It Into The Pacific Ocean

The International Space Station is considered the pinnacle of human achievement in space exploration, with missions to Mars and deep into Earth’s atmosphere. NASA plans on crashing it into the Pacific Ocean by 2028, making way for a new generation of more sustainable spacecraft that could theoretically last up to 100 years without landing

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NASA has disclosed that it aims to retire the famous satellite by 2031 by crashing it into a remote section of the Pacific Ocean known as Point Nemo, according to a new International Space Station Transition Report. Officially designated as “the oceanic pole of inaccessibility” and named after one of the main characters from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, Nemo is the furthest place in the ocean from land. Within a decade, the International Space Station will be decommissioned to make room for commercial destinations and markets in what NASA calls a “thriving space economy.”

NASA Releases an Updated Transition Plan for the International Space Station (NASA)

[…] Following maneuvers to align the final target ground track and debris footprint over the South Pacific Oceanic Uninhabited Area (SPOUA), the area around Point Nemo, ISS operators will conduct the ISS re-entry burn, which will provide the final push to lower the ISS as much as possible and ensure safe atmospheric entry.
NASA and its allies have assessed a number of Russian Progress spacecraft and decided that three are capable of de-orbiting.
Additionally, Northrop Grumman has been improving the propulsion capabilities of its Cygnus spacecraft, and NASA is considering if Cygnus may be part of the vehicle capability required to de-orbit the ISS.

By 2031, NASA intends to decommission the International Space Station by crashing it into the Pacific Ocean (CNN)

The space station, which was launched in 2000 and has orbited 227 nautical miles above Earth, has hosted more than 200 astronauts from 19 different nations, symbolizing a continuous human presence in space.
Point Nemo is the furthest point in the ocean from land, and has been a watery burial for many previous spacecraft. It is named after the submarine sailor in Jules Verne’s book “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.”
Since 1971, space-faring nations such as the United States Russia, Japan, and European countries are said to have buried more than 263 pieces of space debris in the region, which is around 3,000 miles off New Zealand’s eastern coast and 2,000 miles north of Antarctica.