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If you had to drop someone at the place in the ocean farthest from any speck of land—the remotest spot on Earth—where would ...
This remote area of the South Pacific, 34 times larger than France, is the graveyard for hundreds of derelict spacecraft – and will be for the ISS.
For larger chunks of space debris, like rocket stages or space stations, there’s a higher risk that fragments will survive re-entry and strike the surface.
If you are on a boat at Point Nemo, the closest human beings will likely be the astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
Point Nemo has become the final resting place for hundreds of spacecraft. What will future archaeologists make of it?
In the furthest, deepest reaches of the ocean, there is a watery graveyard where the world's satellites and space stations go to rest.
While not smashing various bits of debris into the planet we live on is arguably the ideal option, it's just not practical. Point Nemo is arguably the best place for space debris, and its ...
NASA has been ruminating on retiring the International Space Station and removing it from orbit for years, and they finally figured out how.
Point Nemo, located over 1,600 miles from the nearest land, is the world’s most remote spot, serving as a 'spacecraft cemetery' for over 260 pieces of space debris. Its isolation is so extreme ...
Point Nemo covers such a large area of ocean that even if the de-orbit process is a little off target, no debris will hit an inhabited area. The ISS is the last major space station put into orbit by ...
"There's more than 300 spacecraft at the bottom of the ocean at Point Nemo," Dr Gorman says. "Controlled re-entry" to a location like Point Nemo is the space industry standard for disposing of ...
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