I dunno, his stale-bread playboy attitude made me enjoy the dog attack scene.

Or disassemble it and bring it back to recycle the parts/materials rather than let it all burn up in the atmosphere.

Seeing as how they'll be dropping it into Point Nemo, that would be a tricky thing to determine.

I mean, just create a leak opposite to the side you want to go and bobs your drunk uncle

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I think we should, or at least into cislunar space to act as a stepping stone to lunar gateway.

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Yeah, it 100% should be preserved if we can

This is because atmosphere does most of the job, you just need to drop the perigee low enough.

Consider that the Space Shuttle had around 300 m/s of delta-v available for their orbital operations. Deorbit burn of visiting spacecraft to the ISS are around 130-150 m/s.

Couldn't we just boost it to a safe orbit? Seems a shame to just burn it up

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I like to think that a deorbit tug is when you get a hand job as you are coming back from a long space mission.

I really hope we don't half-ass a transition from the ISS to the next generation of space stations. One of the best things about the ISS currently is that every crew has a roughly 3 month overlap with the previous crew, which allows a tremendous amount of transfer of knowledge. That's continued for about two decades, it'd be a shame to let that operational expertise die.

Indeed. If NASA accepts (is allowed to accept???) this as a project, this will be a big deal.

I'm not going to say propulsion in space is easy, but it is relatively straightforward. Getting into and out of orbit is something we really aren't very good at.

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Axiom is planning to use the ISS as a starting point for their new space station. Axiom's first module is planned to launch in late 2025 and will dock to the forward port of the Harmony module of the ISS. The second, third, and fourth modules are planned to launch in 2026, 2027 and 2028 respectively. Then the Axiom segment will separate from the ISS and become its own modular space station.

Nah, I'd rather a moon base for that.

> The deorbit vehicle shall be capable of providing at least 47 m/s of delta-v for the ISS at 450,000 kg mass.

Very interesting that only 47 m/s of delta-v, at a minimum, is needed. The orbital speed of the ISS is about 7660 m/s.

I was thinking of ksp also.

After a few high speed orbital collisions I build alot of de orbit tugs to keep things clean up there.

That's not manipulative. It's reality.

>Matter" means something objectively detectable made of physical particles which you're able to interact with.

No it doesn't. And you don't get to decide that it does. But it does tell you something about the way "dark matter" is expected to behave based on observation. So does the "energy" in dark energy. These words are meaningful within the context, although like with all things in physics, words will always fail to convey a concept based on math, because they're meant as labels for things you are already informed about, not as a way to convey understanding.

yes, the bit where he says that no evidence doesn't mean it doesn't exist is frankly embarrassing

Like pirate radio stations on abandoned oil platforms in the 70’s.

It takes a lot of delta V to do it, definitely not impossible but best bet would be to keep a schedule similar to the current one but the boosts go for much longer to get it into a slightly higher orbit each time, it’ll cost less total but for longer and it’ll give us time to get better more efficient engines, or it could be used as a testbed for things like ion engines where they have low thrust but high efficiency

I mean if the two main characters didn't have the emotional expressions of a chunk of wood then it probably would have been better.

these are some frustratingly weak arguments from a nobel laureate. I wonder if that comes with the "Albert Einstein Professor Emeritus" title