NASA will pay SpaceX up to nearly US$1 billion ($1.5 billion) to develop a vehicle capable of steering the International Space Station out of orbit to its final resting place when the federal agency and its partners retire the orbiting laboratory in the coming years.
The SpaceX-made vehicle could launch later this decade. It would latch onto the International Space Station — a nearly one million-pound (453,000-ton) structure roughly the size of a football field — and guide the craft as it plunges out of Earth's orbit.
The deorbit vehicle and the space station are expected to slam back into the thick planetary atmosphere while still traveLling more than 27,359 kilometres an hour.
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