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Unlike most space junk, the 109-metre wide space station is too big to completely vapourise in Earth’s atmosphere upon reentry.

When the International Space Station's life comes to an end in 2023, there will be a complicated and expensive mission to deorbit it.

The International Space Station—larger than a football field and weighing almost 450 tons—must eventually fall to Earth. It’s a delicate, dangerous process

The aging complex will be replaced by commercially operated space stations, and deorbited as soon as 2030.

The International Space Station, initiated with Russias Zarya module launch in 1998, has seen significant contributions: 275 launches, 269 spacewalks, and 337 docking operations. The ISS has hosted 273 astronauts from 21 countries, marking a monumental achievement in international space collaboration and research.

A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station on Saturday carrying equipment for the station's crew.

A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station on Saturday carrying equipment for the station's crew.

Washington DC (UPI) Nov 11, 2023 - A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station on Saturday carrying equipment for the stations crew.

The two Russian cosmonauts were in the process of isolating a leaking radiator when a bubble of coolant leaked out of it.

Russian cosmonauts Oleg Konoenko and Nikolai Chub are scheduled to complete a spacewalk from the International Space Station Wednesday, according to NASA.