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A beefed-up version of SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft will launch on a mission to safely destroy the International Space Station .
The deorbit vehicle will carry an additional 30 engines inside its trunk, with between 22 and 26 firing at a time, to give the spacecraft the heft needed to wrangle the sprawling station.
The station's end-of-life plan calls for a fiery plunge into the atmosphere that will dump any lingering remains into an ocean.
The ISS and deorbit vehicle will be at the mercy of Earth ’s thick atmosphere, which will buffet and burn away at the iconic facility.
It will be perhaps SpaceX's and Dragon 's highest-stakes mission to date after more than a decade of visits to the orbiting lab.
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