SpaceX is one step closer to destroying the International Space Station

The The International Space Station will soon diewith SpaceX was tasked with delivering the killing blow Sometime in 2030. Now, after a test last Friday with one of the company's Dragon rockets docked at the station, SpaceX is one step closer to finally destroying the ISS.

At 12:50 p.m. last Friday a The Dragon Rocket has performed its first ever “reboost”. the ISS by firing its rockets to increase the station's altitude and keep it afloat for a while longer. The process must be carried out regularly, with the work traditionally done by rockets from Northrup Grumman or Russia's Roscosmos, but this was the first time a Dragon had restarted the station. Why suddenly ask SpaceX to do the work? Quite simply: the company needs data from pushing the ISS around to design a pole that would pierce through the heart of the station.

It will not be the Dragon spacecraft itself that leaves the ISS. Instead, SpaceX will build a larger ship to demolish the space station – there's no word yet on what fantasy name it will get, although I'm pushing for it Dracolic. The deorbit vehicle will have it triple the engines of a standard kitebut these engines will be the same units from SpaceX's existing spacecraft. The data now obtained from the movement of the ISS will be relevant for the construction of a larger boat.

It would be a real shame to see the ISS fall from the sky, but maybe the station will end up in a better place. If there is a heaven for machines, I hope the International Space Station can get there by 2031. That is possible Hang out with ASIMO in this great oil bath in the sky.