ISS Always Falls, Not Burned

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Space mysteries: How does the ISS stay in orbit without falling to Earth?

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The International Space Station orbits high above our heads, yet the pull of Earth 's gravity never hauls the complex out of orbit and sends it plummeting through our atmosphere, where it would burn up.

The science and mathematics behind what keeps the ISS in orbit goes all the way back to the father of gravitational theory, the 17th-century English scientist Sir Isaac Newton .

Even at 402 kilometers above Earth 's surface, the ISS is still within Earth 's atmosphere, albeit in a very thin part of the atmosphere called the thermosphere.

The ISS will be deliberately deorbited in 2031 over a remote region of the Pacific Ocean called the " Spacecraft Cemetery " A spacecraft-tug will launch in 2030 and dock with the ISS .

It will wait 12 to 18 months for the ISS ' altitude to naturally decay from 402 kilometers to 220 kilometers ( 140 miles ) A final engine burn will bring the space station down into the mesosphere, where meteors from space burn up.

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