The agency doesn't want to depend solely on Russian cargo spacecraft to deorbit the ISS.
The International Space Station photographed by Expedition 56 crew members from a Soyuz spacecraft after undocking, Oct. 4, 2018.
NASA aims to develop a spacecraft capable of steering the International Space Station to a controlled destruction in Earth's atmosphere when its time in orbit is up. We first learned about this plan on Thursday , when the White House released its 2024 federal budget request.included $180 million"to initiate development of a new space tug" that could safely deorbit the ISS over the open ocean after its operational life ends in 2030, as well as potentially perform other activities.
More details emerged on Monday during a press conference NASA held to discuss the proposed budget, which must be approved by Congress to be enacted. For example, we've now got a ballpark price tag for the deorbit tug, preliminary though it may be. "A cost estimate we had was a little short of about $1 billion," Kathy Lueders, NASA's human spaceflight chief, said during the press conference."Our goal is to go out with an RFP [request for proposals], and then, obviously, when we get the proposals, then we're hoping to get a better price than that. But this gives us a healthy start in '24 to get that critical capability onboard.
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