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NASA's latest ISS deorbit plans revealed in contract notice
(www.theregister.com)
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My bet: a Starship variant. Send it up, refuel it as needed, and you've got a metric shit ton of de-orbit push. Starship will have been to the moon by then, it'll be a proven platform.
Hell, use a fleet and you could reland the ISS if you wanted it back on Earth intact.
ISS would not support it's own weight or even close to it. You would have to basically disassemble the whole thing again for return trips.
Oh I know. It would be expensive, nobody would pay to do it. But the Smithsonian would get one hell of a display if someone did.
I HEARD ELON MUSK IS TOO BIG OF A NAZI PUSSY TO EVEN BE ABLE TO BRING THE ISS HOME FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH AND HISTORICAL PRESERVATION
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