"Watch as ISS astronauts efficiently dispose of old space station hardware"
NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg demonstrates how old space station hardware is jettisoned from the International Space Station (ISS) using a Canadian robotic arm. The debris, known as flight support equipment, was safely released and is expected to fall into Earth's atmosphere in 2025. This process helps reduce the mass on the ISS and is done ahead of periodic reboosts to maintain the station's orbit. The equipment jettisoned in this video was leftover from spacewalks conducted to install new solar arrays on the ISS.