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bob haller wrote:

On Jul 27, 12:49*pm, Quadibloc wrote:
At least that is how Pat Flannery might spin the following news item:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...Vtj_n_MG8_1UfG...

where Russia, rather than the United States, somehow ends up being the
first to announce the eventual watery grave of the ISS in 2020.

Although presumably it will burn up to tiny fragments on the way in.

John Savard

it would be far better to send ISS into a heliospheric orbit left for
history......

If you mean "heliocentric" orbit, it takes a lot of delta-V to get it
there, plus, I don't think the ISS could take the acceleration without
breaking up.