The ISS Will Crash to Earth Soon, But Why?
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- čas přidán 4. 06. 2024
- NASA recently announced it will decommission the ISS by 2030. But what's the plan for getting the football-field-sized station back to Earth?
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Based on evaluations, the ISS is expected to continue operations until 2028. Some major reasons for retirement were the operational cost, which is roughly $4 billion per year, and limited onboard capabilities. On top of that, the ISS requires multiple reboost maneuvers each year to keep it from crashing back down to Earth.
So in 2030, when it’s finally time to decommission the ISS, why can’t we let it just float out in space forever? Well there’s a long list of reasons we don’t want that. One of them is because of the Kessler Syndrome, which is the concept that even the smallest fragment of space debris traveling at speeds up to 28 million km/hr can be a catalyst to a much larger chain reaction. But luckily, engineers have a plan to avoid that catastrophic domino effect by harnessing the Earth’s gravitational pull.
By slowly reducing the operational altitude of the ISS over several years, engineers will strategically position its reentry point over a region known as the South Pacific Oceanic Uninhabited Area. A.k.a. where satellites go to die. Known as Point Nemo, this area in the Pacific Ocean is quite literally in the middle of nowhere. Believe it or not, the closest humans to Point Nemo are the crew members of the ISS right now! But the entire satellite will not crash into the ocean, in fact, experts expect most of the station to burn up in the atmosphere during reentry, with only select parts making it to Point Nemo. And this location is optimal because it's within the South Pacific Gyre, a large system of rotating ocean currents that keeps this region fairly absent of oceanic life, in case anyone was concerned about any sea life.
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My favorite thing about the ISS. Is the fact that it is a joint venture of all human kinds technological achievements. As well as a symbol of cooperation and peace.
Absolutely!
Indeed. Replacing it with country-specific and (ugh) commercial platforms instead is just gross.
And yet from here on out, it's all private/for profit
So why is China banned in the ISS?
@@chinaware_456 Because they’re thieves….
28 million kph? That’s 14 time the escape velocity of our galaxy
8km/s = 28,800km/h
Indeed. 28800 kph
Thats because they use an AI computer program to generate a unique script from aggregating news articles, then some idiot like this guy reads the article about the Emm Eye Are space station.
i guess its a case of americans struggling with the metric system xD (it was a joke, dont hate, just a slip of words by him)
28K vs 28M seems like a big mistake or am I missing something?
I’m holding onto my hope that Starship and other reusable crafts are so successful that we end up bringing most of the ISS back to study and then place them in museums with the first capsules and future spacecraft so we can see where we started and where we’ve gone in our journey to where we are headed.
that would be amazing
I doubt most (if any) parts of ISS is built to withstand athmospheric re-entry. Using reusable crafts has nothing to do with salvaging it. But maybe we will find some crashed parts of it and that would definitely a museum piece.
@@lathrael7152 I don’t think you understand the point behind the reusable craft. We are talking 6 years from now for the decommissioning to begin. Most of the modules on the ISS were carried there by the Space Shuttle with a payload capacity of 18m long by 4.6m diameter. Starship has an available payload of 22m long by 8m diameter. To say reusability has nothing to do with it is patently wrong. The only way to bring anything back from orbit that wasn’t designed to come back is inside one of these reusable vehicles.
@@WizDJ Ah in that case that would be really cool. But way too costly so I don't think it would be attempted at all.
Edit: It still goes way beyond that concept... To send a heat shielding enough to cover at least part of the craft, disassembling it in the orbit, and... I am having enough headaches thinking of the complications that can happen already.
@@lathrael7152 By the time they attempted it, it’s highly likely many of these vessels will be going into orbit and they’ll have to come back, might as well throw some space junk in the trunk before they come back to the surface. SpaceX might front the cost simply to bring back the docking adapters they were the first commercial vehicles to dock to. You listening Elon? Get to work, lol.
Wait, did he just say "28 million kilometers an hour" and "M.I.R." Wow. Non-space guy makes a space video.
Lol
OMG! HOW DARE
It was called "Mir", not "M. I. R."
Courtesy NASA 1986: Mir, the first modern-era space station, is launched by the Soviet Union. Mir, a Russian word meaning either "peace" or "world," was the name given to the modular craft that was the transition from the earlier American Skylab and Soviet Salyut stations and the current international space station.Feb 19, 2008
@@Ma11Nas1y The Mir was a poorly designed and built death trap.
@@C.Mc. his internet is so bad that it was delayed by 21/22 years
@@bwxmoto but was ahead of USA and they dispised them for that! USA still insists they were the first country to put astronauts in space as the Russian ones were called cosmonauts! 😂😂😂😂😂
I've never heard as much rubbish! Or maybe I did, again from the USA but that's another story.
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$4b a year is a drop in the bucket compared to the madness that just happened the last few months.
What he said
@@dadzchanel7547 Government spending is the worst business on the planet. It can’t fail as it just prints more of its own money.
Russia keeps the iss up there. They aren't going to do that anymore. Thats why we decided to decommission it now.
@@JavierFernandez01 Not really, if we wanted we could just use any other rocket to give it a boost
The International Space Station is known for conducting all sorts of science experiments, but it is also known as proof of what humanity can achieve if we work together.
I remember standing out on the driveway looking up with my dad for that little moving 'star' when I was little!
I still do it but now with a tracking app. 😆
I was looking up at 2 am every night looking for aliens. I found the iss. :)
There will be many more stations in the near future. Don't let the decommissioning of ISS let you down as bigger, more impressive and daring projects are going to be launched very soon
That was my fart you saw
My favorite thing was looking up, seeing it, and thinking, "There are people up there!"
28million kmph?
Nah..... Not expected from a science channel. Please correct this
This is seeker not science, they even defend astrology
@@gehteuchnixan69 Afaik, seeker put out a video titled
"Why astronomy isn't real science" long time ago(it was d news back then)
Try better next time
@@babayada2015 They argue one shouldn't "zodiac shame" people.
@@gehteuchnixan69 Ofc it's ridiculous to shame anyone for their beliefs.
You don't get to have a "moral high horse" by getting scientifically accurate or associating with correct things.
You know the truth? Fine for you but remember
*for them*, the zodiac signs are the truth
@@gehteuchnixan69 I don't know if you are mature enough or not but people will always disagree with you and despite you being correct in your moral code,
You should never look down on them
"Commercial Space stations" don't have the same feel of "International" I will miss that feeling the most.
For our honeymoon to Houston back in January 2020, my husband and I got to do the Falcon 9 special VIP tour (might be getting the name wrong, sorry). One of the things we did was follow our awesome tour guide to the building where the ISS was being monitored live! We learned all about the ISS, and got to watch a sunrise from space! What a sci-fi experience. It's because of this memory and all we've learned from it that I will miss the ISS.
My favorite part about the ISS? The international nature of it.
i like to political power play and exclusion of it....
My favourite thing about the ISS was that false sense of unified humanity. I say "false" because, as recent events showed, we were very quick to forget decades of fruitful partnership and go back to "camps" in a matter of days.
The US launches wars all the time. China is banned from the ISS. So not just recent events.
Its not unified tho, China even got blocked by USA
It's called Mir (Russian for "peace" or "world"), not M.I.R.
Nice.
My favorite thing about the space station is personal in that I helped build and certify the batteries. I'm proud I helped the space station a reality.
What about a universal station? private ones tend to loose track of priorities.
That sounds like what I support.
The space station would be a habitat for sea life
Is really sad to think in 10 ish years something so important will be reduced to ash and burned metal.
Skylab never reached point nemo in the South Pacific.
It instead impacted Western parts of Australia.
Specifically around Balladonia and Esperance within WA.
Yup. Since we are all West-centric, this is ok. When China rocket booster crash land, lots of people complain lol. Pacific ocean is 50% of the Earth surface, how did that trajectory miss that much...
@@daisuke910 from my understanding.
Skylab had no onboard boosters or fuel. It required an external craft to move it.
So it couldn't be precisely ditched at a location.
The intention was there to use the space shuttle to boost the station before the orbit decayed to the point of no return.
But since the shuttles first official mission was in 81.
It was too late. As the Skylabs trajectory decayed earlier than expected. Ending in July 79.
It definitely feels like an end of an era with the ISS retirement announcement. The ISS is the first sustained multinational spacefaring enterprise humanity has achieved, with unified missions of discovery and new understanding of our world/universe and our place in it. No other endeavor has at once pulled our gaze to the stars in wonder while also pulling our hearts to our homeworld and all those we love.
Seeing this grand adventure draw to a close fills me with a mixture of awe, sorrow, and gratitude for being alive in a time when humanity could overcome such daunting technical, social, and cultural challenges to achieve such inspiring feats.
I only hope that the new era of spacefaring shares this core spirit of discovery, cooperation, and humility. We are all decendsnts of star dust, we all call this little pale blue dot our home. Let us not forget who we are, lest we lose who we can become.
Honestly my favorite thing About the ISS is knowing that it’s there. Knowing that it’s the world’s Space Station!
Always great info delivered in a way that's easy to comprehend.
Thank you!!!
Point nemo is not an area, it’s a point. And most of the time, the closest humans are not astronauts on the ISS. The Russian station Mir is not an acronym, it’s a regular word and is pronounced as such. The description of the Kessler syndrome was inaccurate. You can have small hits of debris without issue. It’s not some inevitable development from a strike, and there are plenty of very safe parking orbits. Anyway, those are a few issues I had with the video off the top of my head. I hope the rest of it holds up, but i would take any details with a grain of salt because it felt very rushed to me.
I want to add that things in low earth orbit move with a velocity of about 28 thousand km/h, not 28 million as stated in the video. It's what you would call a mistake of a couple of orders of magnitude
That’s stupid, why not have the ISS do a “controlled crash” into the moon so that when the time comes for the Artemis Mission to make the it’s way to the moon, Astronauts can potentially use some of the components if not all as a mission base starting point that they can refill with O2 for them to breathe
too expensive. Probably cost way more than launching a real moon probe.
I don't see how a pile of debris on the Moon would be of any use as a base, and that's considering you'd even be able to move the entire station in a collision route to the Moon
The fuel needed to get the ISS to the moon would need to be delivered up there since this wasn't planned for, and it might not be feasible to bring up that much fuel due to the strict weight limits required for space travel.
Basically, it would just be really complicated and expensive to do something like this, because the ISS was never meant to go beyond earth orbit, and probably doesn't even have the technology needed to get to the moon. Maybe if they had planned for this from the beginning it would be possible, but unfortunately they didn't. I do agree that sending the ISS to the moon would be really cool, though haha
because that's a dumb idea
I wonder how close to the center of the planet the ISS would have to "orbit", for it not to head for the stars at 28 MILLION km/h🧠
I hope that the ISS will not suffer Mir's fate, and will instead be pushed out to a higher "parking orbit" where it can remain for hundreds of years. When I was 7 or so I met an astronaut who had been to Mir when she visited my school and got her autograph. I thought it was an amazing job and for years it was my most prized possession as I dreamt of going there myself; I was pretty sad to see it de-orbit in 2001.
“In the middle of nowhere”
Guys on fishing boat (in the middle of nowhere) look up and…. 😂
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1:34 28 Million kmp/h,
It's 28,000 kmp/h genius
It took a lot of energy to lift all that material into orbit.
Isn't there a way of salvaging and reusing that material outside of earth gravity well?
Rather than having to lift a whole bunch of new material all over again?
Recycling materials is already hard enough on Earth, we have no way to use the modules as material for something else
You guys should probably do a bit more research about decommissioning the ISS. Cause it will take more then a full orbit. So you can't aim it there
I've never heard anyone say M.I.R. before now.
I've enjoyed the visible passes of ISS over the years. I'd be happy with the launch of a 1960's Echo-style satellite, but with the primary purpose of being visible from the surface. But, have it be in a higher, more stable orbit. But, I guess such a flimsy thing would be too subject to solar wind over time.
Great explanation, thank you very much
Russia isn't going to keep the iss up there is why we decided to decommission it.
@@JavierFernandez01 Ummmm no. Crisis or not decommision date for ISS was 2028, and it was agreed WAY before the current crisis. Also mike M, their explanation took 13 seconds and was greatly lacking, you have low standards.
@@lathrael7152 idk... they want to leave our astronaut in space too.
As a somewhat educated laid, I believe that it should be done in parts. About one third of ISS should be disconnected and then plunged into the atmosphere. It would a) provide a test and learning curve b) and if things would go somewhat wrong the damage would be smaller. Then the rest would follow either in parts or the whole thing. Doing it with whole thing without a “test” is wrong.
"soon" - There is literally no valid excuse for any science channel using clickbait titles.
Especially when Roscosmos threatened to crash it just a couple of weeks ago. Seeker is unquestionably aware of the threat and using it for clickbait is despicable.
In space exploration, 7,5 years is relatively "soon".. 😁
LOL... this isn't a science channel, its a clickbait channel where they get some guy who has no idea what he's talking about to read a computer written AI analyzed aggregate of several news articles.
I'm unsubscribing now. This was a real low.
@@lathrael7152 Not an airport, buddy... 👋🏻👋🏻
I've gone outside so many times to watch the ISS pass overhead.
Don't let the octopuses get hold of it or we're doomed! :)
Nice video.
Am I the only person who thinks it is stupid that we don’t have a permanent presence in the moon yet?
That's coming in 2024
no monetary benefit
The ISS proved that science can come before nationalism. To me, it showed that we can work together as one people toward a higher goal. Thinking about the decommissioning of the ISS feels like the end of a dream.
MIR is not a acronym, it's a single word.
Bigger infrastructures in LEO, that join the functions of Research Lab, Observatory, Space Hotel, and Assembly line for satellites, could make them more economical viable in the long term.
Hope they send one like that!
no wonder aliens dont visit us
It's not pronounced "M", "I", "R", it's MIR, which rhymes with deer.
These yung'uns! It's I-S-S, so it must have been M-I-R...
Seeker 🙄
Em Eye Are space station? Ho boy. Mir, pronounced 'mere.' 🤭
This will be a part of our history
I may sound dumb but that’s so exciting for the future of f space exploration
Make it into a hotel! Will there be a moon base in it's place?
Use it as a Space Hotel...🥺
No
Considering how much effort it still takes to get things into orbit, it's a shame they can't reuse some of that equipment.
Great video, but will the replacement in 2027 be better or is it just a waste of money to have a vanity project like a space station.? ;-)
Couldn't they launch it to higher orbit and use it as spare parts?
My favorite thing--it wasn't private.
So the ISS was too expensive to maintain in Orbit. But some people think a Human colony on Mars in the next decades is possible, and economical viable? Some common sense is needed.
surprised no elon psychofan attacked you yet hahah
Well, one argument that can be made is it's not meant for us. Yes, *us*. The generation ahead of us will have solved the technology and logistics of colonization, and everything Elon may be doing is making sure none of it dies out in the vine.
@@tomektomek9836 many don't even realize how hard it would be to live in Mars. Mostly inside bunkers due to the harsh Environment, low Gravity, being outside for short time periods using pressurized suits. While waiting for supply missions coming from Earth, and enjoy eating food rations. Or suffering a mental breakdown due to the isolation, or the fear to have a life support system failure, or oxygen and water shortage.
@@ovum you're underestimating how hard would be to live in Mars. Many would quickly regret their decision and want to return to Earth. And the colonist would be always dependable on supply missions coming from Earth. Few Crew missions could eventually happen in a near future, but a fully sustainable colony, it's straight Utopian.
Wow !!!!!!
28 MILLION KPH?????
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Private companies going to space. That will go well, lol.
why are private companies getting to make a new one tho?
I wonder if the ISS could be reorbited around the moon.
There's an idea! Alternitavely I would love to "land" it on the moon. I mean it wouldn't be a pretty landing but at least we would know it was all mostly all in one piece somewhere and could turn it into a super historical site once we colonised the crap out of the moon.
Wow
If any of this space junk hits R'lyeh, Cthulhu is gonna be PISSED.
Yeah
This was a lot less politic than i thought. Kudos
I remember MIR burning down..
Crazy to think our first space station will be forever gone. Never to be put in a museum, or turned into one. I know its a tini POS station but it was humanities first.
It is not 😬
Skylab
Better to extend the life. You won't have another international endeavour to build another space station.
What happened to your Henry Cavill looking guy. Get him back. We need him.
Valerian opening scene hopes are lost now..
If much of a ship's mass is fluid then moving the fluid would move the mass
Very true. Very true. 🧐
_Also_ true: If much of a ship’s mass is solid then moving the solid would move the mass.
Why can't we put it into a parking orbit between earth and the moon where future space travelers could visit like a museum
We can but probably won't because of cost reasons. Maybe Starship can change that.
Russia keeps the iss in orbit. They aren't going to do that anymore. Thats why we decided to decommission it now.
@@JavierFernandez01 No it was already being decomissioned way before this war. they extended it because the delays in the orion/artemis program.
*not everything is politics*
@@emirkayrak ill just believe you. But we've had spotty relations with russia before the war too. They're hinting at leaving an American astronaut in space too. They are his ride home.
Not interested in a "commercial" space station.
Give us another ISS. Emphasis on the "International" part.
Leave it out there so Space Pirates have a home too!
28,000 kph at 1:26?
What's the significance of the word 'SOON' in the title 🤔
Why will it hit Mecca? 😱😢😓
It was great and all, but my favourite thing was the way it sapped all the money that could have been spent on a lunar space station and colony, and it was in the wrong orbit to be used as a way point for such a mission. See ya 👋
Sell it to a private company that wants to turn it into an orbiting hotel ???
Then let that company deal with any problems.
I want SpaceX to create an iss
That's so stupid. Just push the station to the moon orbit and leave it there, maybe we will need it in the future.
Thumbnail is misleading, as you said, it'll burn up in the atmosphere.
A couple weird proofreading hiccups in this one. Incorrect numbers and sentences that weren't quite sentences.
i dont understand why they wouldn't leave it out there for future salvage.
a lot pf money was spent getting it up there.
You need to regularly boost its orbit, otherwise I comes down due to the friction of the atmosphere
because it comes down itself
why decommission it why not dissemble it and reuse the parts. It costs like $1M per kilogram to get things into orbit I would be undoing every bolt and fastener to reuse even if its just basic components.
That doesn't make sense, bringing them back to earth in a usable condition is completely illogical and would cost more than putting them up there, also the main cost isn't the components its the rockets to move them there which are already gone.
That’s wishful thinking but many parts are way past their lifecycle and bolts have been stretched. It needs a redesign for improved safety as well.
@@carrotylemons1190 No he means keeping it in space and using parts for new projects. That seems like more hassle than it’s worth.
Also it really doesn't cost 1M per kg, yes expensive but not that expensive!
@@markm0000 unless things been stressed past the point of safety an #4 torque bolt is an #4 bolt. that said the expensive part would be the paying the guy or gal to stay up there and dismantle it by hand piece by piece, unfortunately our robotics are still 30 years away at best from being capable of doing remote EVA style work/repairs.
My favorite thing is that they call it international and yet 18% of humanity is banned from the ISS...three guesses as to who
Maybe it will find nemo.
BUT WERE IN 2022 AND ITS ALMOST 2030 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-
See it in the sky wen wen it observed as a moving dot in the sky me and my mom love to see it wen it does
wasn't wondering that i was wondering what the hec are you strange
Why not raise its orbit into a parking g orbit where it wouldn't need fuel if any to stay in orbit indefinitely
I thought they get new solar panels????
Smile because it happened
Quicker answer: it will be decomissioned because eventually it will become too expensive and time consuming to maintain and fix.
Which will make way for a more expandable and modular station.
why not send it to mars orbit and use it as a docking station
Avoid it or cause it? 🤔
How much would it cost to get the ISS to the moon?
We are going to need a station at the moon, why not fund the ISS to be moved.
Launching a new station is going to cost way more than a booster and fuel.
because the ISS is already falling apart
Can't they push the ISS just out into space.
28,000,000 kmph NO WRONG NOTHING IS GOING FASTER THAN LIGHT 🤣🤣🤣