TECH - SpaceX Unveils ISS Deorbit Vehicle Design Resembling Dragon Spacecraft With '6X More Propellant And 4X Power' | Benzinga
Elon Musk‘s SpaceX on Wednesday revealed a conceptual illustration of the spacecraft it is designing to deorbit the International Space Station (ISS) and it resembles the company’s Dragon spacecraft.
What Happened: SpaceX posted the picture on X, while explaining that the spacecraft will have six times more propellant and four times the power of its Dragon spacecraft.
With 6x more propellant and 4x the power of today's Dragon spacecraft, SpaceX was selected to design and develop the U.S. Deorbit Vehicle for a precise, controlled deorbit of the @Space_Station https://t.co/GgtuplTwqQ pic.twitter.com/E23sS7CE4U — SpaceX (@SpaceX) July 17, 2024
NASA chose SpaceX to ...