“Due to the high propellant requirement of this final maneuver, the Earth’s natural atmospheric drag will be used as much as possible to lower [the] station’s altitude while setting up deorbit.

A TOP secret US spaceship has touched down on Earth after spending 434 days in orbit. The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-7 landed ...

The 29-foot-long X-37B landed at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California last Friday (Mar 7) at 2:22 am local time.

The International Space Station (ISS) may be retired sooner than the planned 2030 deorbit date due to age, cost, and a potential shift in NASA's priorities. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has expressed ...

I recommend two years from now." SpaceX has a contract to build a deorbit vehicle based on its Dragon spacecraft to do the deed, but also has potentially several crewed trips to the space station ...

Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk said that NASA should deorbit the International Space Station “as soon as possible,” preferably in the next two years, to focus on ...

The company got first in line for the $843 million NASA contract to build the so-called U.S. Deorbit Vehicle in the ... including by performing a maneuver meant to point the ISS at a place on ...