NASA Responds to Rumors of ‘Catastrophic’ ISS De-orbit – The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has dismissed rumors of a “catastrophic failure” aboard the International Space Station (ISS) after an anonymous post gained traction online.
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In response to this post: https://np.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1iub74f/in_december_a_4chan_user_posted_this_today_elon/
Nothing much we can do about it, but interesting speculation regardless. I guess we’ll soon see maybe.
Elon Musk got SpaceX a big government contract to decom ISS in 2030 and spouted off so he could do it earlier and presumably collect his checks earlier.
[https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/02/elon-musk-recommends-that-the-international-space-station-be-deorbited-asap/](https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/02/elon-musk-recommends-that-the-international-space-station-be-deorbited-asap/)
Thank God NASA would never lie or stage anything. Phew. Disaster averted.
But personally I don’t put much stock in the idea. Wouldn’t it just burn up in a bunch of little pieces?
Anyone wanna make a script to pull public apogee data and chart it’s orbital trajectory over time? We could settle this very, very easily.