SpaceX has dreamed up a Dragon ship on steroids to drag the ISS out of space |
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| The super-sized Dragon spacecraft has a larger trunk and a whopping 46 Draco engines to send the ISS to a fiery doom. |
| SpaceX's new vehicle to bring down the International Space Station
will be a monster. The SpaceX deorbit vehicle, a variant of its workhorse Dragon spacecraft, will carry 46 Draco thrusters to send the International Space Station (ISS) to its end in the south Pacific Ocean in the next decade, the company said in remarks last week. That's triple the usual 16 on board Cargo Dragon missions to the ISS, according to SpaceX. "The vehicle design will build upon SpaceX's Dragon cargo spacecraft, with an enhanced trunk section that will host propellant tanks, engines, avionics, power generation and thermal hardware tailored to complete this mission," Sarah Walker, SpaceX's director of Dragon mission management, said in a July 17 press conference. |
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