Nasa plans to plunge the ISS into South Pacific Ocean in 2031

The International Space Station (ISS) will continue working until 2030, before plunging into the Pacific Ocean in early 2031, according to Nasa. Mission control of ISS will first lower its altitude, before spacecraft begins its descent into South Pacific Oceanic Uninhabited Area (SPOUA) in an area known as Point Nemo.

ISS: modular space station in low Earth orbit and is multinational collaborative project of NASA, Roscosmos, JAXA, ESA, and CSA.