Bob Zimmerman on the EPA’s overreach.
I don’t actually favor deorbiting ISS, but I’m sure that the EPA has no statutory authority to decide what we can put into the ocean in international waters.
Bob Zimmerman on the EPA’s overreach.
I don’t actually favor deorbiting ISS, but I’m sure that the EPA has no statutory authority to decide what we can put into the ocean in international waters.
Obviously by prohibiting dumping Space junk in the oceans we can slow the acceleration of sea-level rise. Everyone knows that! Doesn’t anyone here know how to settle the science?
The air friction from returning spacecraft are heating the atmosphere causing global warming! SpaceX must be stopped!
A 400 tonne space station vs how many tonnes of shipping sunk over the last 3000 years?
Will you need a permit from the EPA every time you go to sea in case the ship sinks?
I see a lot of good ideas here for the EPA! They’ve been looking for ways to implement survive local. A global mandate to halt all ocean shipping (excuse me, regulate the environmental hazards of sea transportation) would be in their wheelhouse – when you squint right.
A little fun with ChatGPT:
Q: What is the weight of all the water if one foot is taken from all the ocean surface?
A: [After a lot of yada yada yada converting to metric, when it could have done it all in normal units]
So, the total weight of the water removed from the oceans if one foot were taken from the entire surface area would be 110 trillion metric tons.
Q: What is the result in US tons?
A: To convert from metric tons to US tons (also known as short tons):
1 metric ton = 1.10231 US tons
[yada yada yada]
Thus, the weight of the water removed, if one foot of water were taken from the entire surface of the Earth’s oceans, would be approximately 121.3 trillion US tons.
Just for comparison purposes mind you….
That’s one comet 22km in diameter.
…and there’s no edit function and my math is wrong. I need coffee.
Then SpaceX should let NASA know they will not be involved in deorbiting the Space Station.
“Thank you, come again!”
At last! A real mission for SLS!
NASA will be scheduling that as soon as possible – tentatively Oct 15, 2062.
In the morning, because Spectrum is coming in the afternoon!
I rather EPA start with regulating NASA dumping first stages in the ocean. That might finally kill SLS. The entire Artemis flight program (as if it will ever fly) will dump more in the ocean than deorbiting ISS. EPA is just a money funnel to Democrat causes and needs to be defunded.
Good thing Chevron deference is gone.
Refurbishing ISS to give it another 15 to 20 years is not a gigantic endeavor. Use Dragon USDV to take over ROS function. Replace ROS with PMM/HALO (either a copy or actual Gateway modules). Add a Cygnus-derived machine-shop module, and no need for Axiom.
Much of ISS is less than 15 years old now (Nodes 2 and 3, Japanese and European modules, etc.). What needs work is Node 1, US airlock, and Destiny lab. If Axiom is available, add it.
As always, politics is the problem.
Don’t deorbit the ISS. Instead, send it to L1. Then build a cage around it. The ISS would then become a museum. Tourist would then visit the museum. The tourist would be in a pressurized ring, built around the cage. The ring would also have its own magnetic field. Musk has the money, and could do this. He could make money later on, by selling flights to the ISS. They would travel there by Starship.
You would then have two options. Visit the Moon, or visit the ISS. You would not be able to go inside the ISS. But you could view the ISS from outside the ring.
ISS would not survive the trip up and would fall apart quickly if it did. It can probably be extended another 15 – 20 years in LEO, but if not, Starship can bring it down and it can be set up in a museum. Probably a new section of Udvar-Hazy.