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A Soyuz MS-20 space craft is seen on a monitor after undocking from the the International Space Station (ISS), starting the landing of the International space crew including Japanese space tourists Yusaku Maezawa and his assistant Yozo Hirano, and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, at Mission Control Center in Korolyov, outside Moscow, early on December 20, 2021.
The space graveyard found in Point Nemo where the International Space Station (ISS) will plummet in 2030, many spacecraft that have fallen from orbit since 1970 can be found here.
This area expands to 2000 miles from Antarctica, a remote part of the world where space junk can come down safely. Material cannot be allowed to stay in the earth's orbit because it will become dangerous space junk.
Remote Area in the South Pacific Ocean Called Point Nemo
The International Space Station is about 250 miles above this location in the ocean.
Point Nemo is not very deep with a depth of two and a half miles, and the nearest land would be 1,677 miles further from any inhabitants, the Daily Mail reported.
Its name was taken from Captain Nemo, who sailed the seas in the Nautilus in the book 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea.' It was first used in disposing of spacecraft in the 70s.
Another term is used for this location is the Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility which is found in the South Pacific Ocean, countries that surround it are New Zealand, Antarctica, and Argentina, this is 1,600 miles from these nations, per World Atlas.
Usually, spacecraft would be dropped into the space graveyard in a gradual de-orbit. Still, the Tiangong-1 Chinese orbital laboratory went down in an uncontrolled orbit close to this area.
When it crashed down, it was anybody's guess where it would fall.
ISS To Crash in Point Nemo
Under the water, the graveyard has what's left of 260 vehicles when nations started dumping hardware from orbit. If there were to have stayed, it would be very messy and dangerous in orbit.
NASA announced earlier that it had made the area where the parts of the ISS that won't burn up be falling towards. An update was announced a week ago too.
On January 2031, the station would be in gradual de-orbit of the huge ISS facility that weighed a total of 930,000 pounds which is made up of Russian and US spacecraft, noted All Starts USA.
First sent up in 1998, the ISS should have been in service for 15 years, but it will be extended up to 30 years when it will be crashing down to Point Nemo in the pacific.
The US government supports the plan to operate the ISS up to 2030 until the transition to operation by private corporations.
It's a place where everything crucial to everyone on earth is studied, especially the research of outer space technologies to stay in space.
When the time comes to de-obit the station, the series of events will depend on the main structures, not separate modules.
Not all parts will be in the plunge to earth, the reusable part will be left in orbit, but others will burn up in the atmosphere.
Once it gets below 253 miles, it will decay in orbit. Support spacecraft from USA and Russia will be sent to get the ISS into de-orbit.
The Space Graveyard will be the final resting place of the International Space Station, where it will plummet towards Point Nemo; it will join the Space Lab and others now at the bottom.
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