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    cemetery. NASA plans to launch the deorbit vehicle in 2030, docking at the Harmony forward port. The deorbit vehicle will remain attached, dormant, for...
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    November 2024 at 17:50 UTC. The US Deorbit Vehicle is a planned Cargo Dragon variant that will be used to deorbit the ISS and direct any remnants into...
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    Atmospheric entry (redirect from Deorbit)
    development of modern ablative heat shields and blunt-shaped vehicles. In the United States, this technology was pioneered by H. Julian Allen and A. J....
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    March 2023). "NASA planning to spend up to $1 billion on space station deorbit module". SpaceNews. Retrieved 13 March 2023. "NASA to Industry: Send Ideas...
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    SpaceX CRS-31 (category 2024 in the United States)
    the ISS. This reboost test will aid in developing the SpaceX United States Deorbit Vehicle as changes in orbit, trajectory and velocity will be carefully...
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    duration.: III–238  Approximately four hours prior to deorbit, the crew began preparing the orbiter vehicle for reentry by closing the payload doors, radiating...
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  • Starship has been launched 8 times, with 4 successes and 4 failures. The vehicle Starship composes when combined with the Super Heavy booster, also named...
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  • thermal protection but it never reentered as the upper stage failed to deorbit. The second demonstrator, named Mission Possible, is a larger capsule measuring...
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    Archived from the original on 2012-01-01. Retrieved 2011-12-24. "NanoSat Deorbit and Recovery System (DRS) to Enable New Missions" (PDF). conference paper...
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    Soyuz (spacecraft) (category Vehicles introduced in 1967)
    Soyuz uses a method similar to the 1970s-era United States Apollo command and service module to deorbit itself. The spacecraft is turned engine-forward...
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    the satellites orbit whether that is to extend life of satellite or to deorbit it. Optional rocket kick stages used to place some payloads into higher...
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    Artemis IV (category 2028 in the United States)
    March 2023). "NASA planning to spend up to $1 billion on space station deorbit module". SpaceNews. Retrieved 13 March 2023. Foust, Jeff (20 January 2022)...
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    M1-5 was the Progress spacecraft which was launched by Russia in 2001 to deorbit the fifteen-year-old Mir space station in a controlled fashion over a remote...
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    Spacecraft (redirect from Orbital Vehicle)
    A spacecraft is a vehicle that is designed to fly and operate in outer space. Spacecraft are used for a variety of purposes, including communications...
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    IM-1 (category February 2024 in the United States)
    and Sensing Satellite made an intentional hard landing in 2009 following deorbit. Reporting by Kenneth Chang in The New York Times includes a detailed description...
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  • Mediterranean Games are expected to take place in Pristina, Kosovo. NASA plans to deorbit the International Space Station in January this year, directing any unbroken...
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    the laser broom, a proposed multimegawatt land-based laser that could deorbit debris: the side of the debris hit by the laser would ablate and create...
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    when the upper stage malfunctioned and was not able to complete its final deorbit burn. The second launch was therefore postponed to 6 March 2025, successfully...
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    The post-spacecraft mission extension ran 2.4 hours before the planned deorbit burn was executed. NASA's Launch Services Program is working on two on-going...
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    process is completed, the HTV is loaded with waste and unberthed. The vehicle then deorbits and is destroyed during reentry, the debris falling into the Pacific...
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    the time to deorbit should be as short as possible (i.e., much shorter than 25 years)". Holger Krag of the European Space Agency states that as of 2017...
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  • substantial additional propellant – to be able to rendezvous with, capture and deorbit an existing derelict satellite from approximately the same orbital plane...
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  • launch on an Electron launch vehicle in 2023, and it was successfully launched in February 2024. The mission will deorbit a second stage of the H2A rocket...
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    USA-193 (category Secret space vehicles)
    UTC Launch vehicle: United Launch Alliance Delta II-7920 launch vehicle Launch site: Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, United States Launch facility:...
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  • Thiokol (category Rocket engine manufacturers of the United States)
    of liquid and solid rocket motors for the US space program, including deorbit motors for the Mercury and Gemini programs, rocket stages and separation...
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    CDT MCC "Go-No Go" Decision for the Deorbit Burn 6:52 am CDT Maneuver to the Deorbit Burn Attitude 7:07 am CDT Deorbit Burn 8:14 am CDT Landing at KSC 8:15 am...
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    rendezvous, deorbit, abort to orbit, and to abort once around. At lift-off, two solid rocket boosters (SRBs) were used to take the vehicle to an altitude...
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    controlled vehicle to rendezvous with this debris, capture it, and attach a smaller deorbit satellite to the debris. The remotely controlled vehicle would...
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    New Shepard (category Blue Origin launch vehicles)
    Shepard is a fully reusable sub-orbital launch vehicle developed for space tourism by Blue Origin. The vehicle is named after Alan Shepard, who became the...
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    the two planned orbits, the spacecraft was manually commanded to begin a deorbit burn, resulting in it splashing down in the Pacific Ocean at 19:02 UTC...
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