Send it to Mars or Venus. Let it crash there. What’s so hard to figure out?
All good things must come to an end but we are dumb if we don’t have the replacement already in space before we drop theISS from orbit. We effed up without having a Shuttle program replacement for orbital transport, repair, and recovery and we should not let the Chinese have the only operational space station.
Ok class the problem for today is to solve the rocket equation for moving a 450 tonne mass from deep in earth’s gravity well to a C3 escape velocity or 11,000 meters per second then the Delta V for the H transfer orbit to Mars it’s easier to go up out the Sun’s gravity well than down into it seems counter intuitive but it’s true.
Hint that much mass to Mars is more than the current lifting capacity of the largest rockets even the 150 tonne Elon starship would take dozens of fuel trips to orbit just to bring the fuel needed.
Or you could just slow it down by 100 mps and let it burn up.
“Send it to Mars or Venus. Let it crash there. What’s so hard to figure out?”
Exactly how do you propose they get it there?
Are you serious? Do you know the amount of fuel required to take 450 tons from low earth orbit to Mars? Hint: It’s a lot more than 450 tons of fuel. Just remember that the it took the Saturn V rocket just to get a small spaceship to the moon.
Absolutely. Why would we want to risk bringing it down our way? Dumb as hell. Stab it with a rocket spear and send it away.
Don’t you Martha’s Vineyard?
Send it to Venus. I like the idea. Might contaminate Mars but Venus has heat andsulfuric acid it will be absorbed