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You're not stupid. Atmospheric drag drops off rapidly as you go higher. The ISS would deorbit within a few years due to atmospheric drag at it's current altitud
by datadrivenangel 3y ago
You're not stupid. Atmospheric drag drops off rapidly as you go higher. The ISS would deorbit within a few years due to atmospheric drag at it's current altitude, but if you got up to ~1000km it would take thousands of years to decay.
- m4rtink 3y agoThat could work & would be substantially less crazy like the suggestions to put it to GEO and Lagrange points. Still, unless actually maintained in some form, there will be a risk of the ex-ISS complex shedding stuff over time - either due to collisions or possibly material degradation, which could still be an issue for anything below or crossing the new higher orbit.