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ISS deorbit
NASA · SpaceX · international partners · Launch: Station in orbit since 1998
The International Space Station will be retired and steered into a remote part of the Pacific Ocean by a SpaceX-built deorbit vehicle.
Objective: Safely end ISS operations and hand low-Earth-orbit research to commercial stations.
Controlled re-entry over the Pacific
~2030–2031
Target date · may change
Mission details
- Rocket & spacecraft
- US Deorbit Vehicle (SpaceX, based on Dragon)
- Destination
- Point Nemo, South Pacific
- Operations planned through 2030.
- The deorbit vehicle launches ~1.5 years before re-entry.
- Largest controlled re-entry ever attempted (~420 tonnes).
Milestones
2 of 4 reachedFirst module launched
Nov 1998
Continuous crew since
Nov 2000
Deorbit vehicle launch
~2029Provisional
Re-entry
~2030–2031Provisional
Future dates are agency targets, not confirmed schedules.
Curated dataset
Official source: NASA ISS transition →