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Calculating how bad a pressure leak it would take to deorbit the International Space Station (lemmy.world)
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I don't know enough to check if this checks out, but I have enough faith in the lemmy community at this moment to believe someone will rush in to correct wrong information.

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[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Even if all the air leaked out of the ISS, I doubt it would provide enough delta-V to deorbit the station. A leak is basically a poorly designed cold gas thruster.