Learn more about Point Nemo, a remote area in the Pacific where the ISS will be sent in 2030 or 2031.

Point Nemo sits quietly in the southern Pacific, marked on maps but rarely thought about. It is not a destination in any usual sense. There are no shi.

As Earth’s orbit fills with dangerous debris, obsolete spacecraft are deliberately sent to the most remote place on the planet. This is the story of Point Nemo, the space cemetery beneath the Pacific, ...

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The International Space Station just notched a major milestone, but its days are numbered. Sunday (Nov. 2) marked the 25th anniversary of continuous human occupation of the International Space Station ...

As orbital debris edges toward a Kessler-style chain reaction, agencies have relied on Point Nemo, Earth’s most remote ocean, as a controlled graveyard for spacecraft like Mir and eventually the ISS.

UNDATED (WKRC) - NASA has been ruminating on retiring the International Space Station (ISS) and removing it from orbit for years, and it finally figured out how. Removing a massive object from space ...

The world is a big place. So big that there are many obscure locations most of us will never hear of, much less visit. As a matter of fact, scientists have mapped out the most inaccessible areas to ...

Point Nemo, located in the South Pacific, was computed in 1992. It's equidistant (2,688 km) from Ducie, Motu Nui, and Maher Islands. Over 250 deorbited spacecraft have been sunk there since the 1970s.

Point Nemo lies in the South Pacific Ocean, at 48°52.6′ south latitude and 123°23.6′ west longitude to be exact. It is about 2,700 kilometres away from the nearest land in all directions. Also known ...