llamacoffee@lemmy.worldM to Spaceflight@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 year agoNASA has a fine plan for deorbiting the ISS—unless Russia gets in the wayarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square22linkfedilinkarrow-up150arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up148arrow-down1external-linkNASA has a fine plan for deorbiting the ISS—unless Russia gets in the wayarstechnica.comllamacoffee@lemmy.worldM to Spaceflight@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square22linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareViperActual@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year 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-up1·1 year 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.