Learn more about Point Nemo, a remote area in the Pacific where the ISS will be sent in 2030 or 2031.
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Point Nemo and the spacecraft graveyard, where satellites, space stations, and rockets are sent to die
As Earth’s orbit fills with dangerous debris, obsolete spacecraft are deliberately sent to the most remote place on the planet. This is the story of Point Nemo, the space cemetery beneath the Pacific, ...
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Point Nemo, the spacecraft graveyard in the South Pacific where satellites, rocket stages, and space stations are sent to die
As orbital debris edges toward a Kessler-style chain reaction, agencies have relied on Point Nemo, Earth’s most remote ocean, as a controlled graveyard for spacecraft like Mir and eventually the ISS.
When space debris enters Earth’s atmosphere, some of it ends up at Point Nemo, a remote area of the Pacific Ocean with depths of around 13,000 feet. The World’s Carolyn Beeler speaks with Moriba K.
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