The world will be watching—literally—as SpaceX tackles possibly what might be its highest-stakes endeavor to date: safely destroying the beloved International Space Station
To add to what others have said already, much smaller batteries, though think like lantern sized, didn’t burn up on re-entry and damaged someone’s house. NASA is already paying for that.
Isn’t it in a low enough orbit that it should just come down and burn up eventually anyway? Seems like they could save a lot of money that way…
There will be shit falling down due to it’s size, so the deorbit has to be controlled
It’s big enough that not all of it will burn up. And you don’t want the debris to hit someone.
Gotcha, makes sense.
To add to what others have said already, much smaller batteries, though think like lantern sized, didn’t burn up on re-entry and damaged someone’s house. NASA is already paying for that.
It needs to be absolutely sure that all of it goes to Point Nemo.