Starlink implements a targeted reentry approach to deorbit satellites over the open ocean, away from populated islands and heavily trafficked airline and maritime routes. This targeted reentry ...

Elon Musk recently called for the agency to deorbit the station much sooner. But agency officials are hoping humans will still have a future in Earth orbit through NASA’s Commercial Low Earth ...

The SpaceX rocket failed to deorbit properly, and the Blue Origin debris had already landed as planned in the ocean Sara Hashemi Daily Correspondent A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches on November ...

Because of an oxygen leak, the expected deorbit burn didn't occur. The second stage that came down was from a mission launched on February 1 to deploy another 22 Starlink satellites into low-Earth ...

The photo is yet another flex from the plane, which has already earned loads of space cred with its ability to deorbit and land back on Earth like a regular airplane. It also logged 908 days out ...

Due to the leak, the planned deorbit burn was not performed and steps were taken to remove sources of stored energy on the component. “The teams are actively assessing root cause of the source ...

He suggested that deorbit preparations begin immediately, proposing a two-year timeline — far earlier than NASA’s current 2030 retirement plan. Musk’s call for an accelerated timeline has ...

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 ...

Despite Musk’s call for an earlier exit, NASA and its international partners are sticking to their plan to deorbit the ISS in 2030. In June 2024, NASA awarded SpaceX an $843 million contract to ...

Elon Musk continues to push the idea that it’s time to deorbit the International Space Station and shift focus toward the Red Planet. “It has served its purpose,” the billionaire SpaceX ...