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ICM was to launch on board the [[Space Shuttle]], deploy from the Shuttle's cargo bay, and mate with the ISS at the Russian Control Module (called Zarya). Once on orbit ICM would provide sufficient fuel for one to three years of operation.|sign=NRL Spacecraft Engineering Department|source=<ref>{{cite web |url=http://code8200.nrl.navy.mil/icm.html |title=ICM - Interim Control Module |publisher=[[Naval Research Laboratory|NRL]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091021090451/http://code8200.nrl.navy.mil/icm.html |archive-date=21 October 2009}}</ref>}}

After the successful launch of Zvezda, ICM was placed in a caretaker status at NRL's Payload Processing Facility in Washington, D.C. Should it become necessary to complete and launch ICM, it iswas estimated that it would take between two and two-and-a-half years to do so.<ref name="Handberg2003">{{cite book|last=Handberg|first=Roger|title=Reinventing NASA: Human Space Flight, Bureaucracy, and Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=plzgglHCV10C&pg=PA116|year=2003|publisher=Praeger|___location=Westport, CT|isbn=978-0-275-97002-4|page=116}}</ref>

Since the ICM was mothballed, a variety of new uses for it have been proposed. Most seriously, it was proposed for use as part of a robotic servicing mission for the [[Hubble Space Telescope]],<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2004-05-01/news/0405010142_1_mission-to-hubble-hubble-space-telescope-service-the-hubble/2|title=Robots to the rescue for the ailing Hubble?|last=Roylance|first=Frank D.|work=[[The Baltimore Sun]]|date=1 May 2004}}</ref> before the final Shuttle [[STS-125|servicing mission]] was approved. The ICM has also been suggested as an integral part of a new telescope based on [[2012 National Reconnaissance Office space telescope donation to NASA|unused spy satellite hardware]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2012/11/19/moore-1_Princeton_2.pdf|title=Princeton Astrophysics Community Meeting|last=Moore|first=Michael|date=4 September 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306232043/http://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2012/11/19/moore-1_Princeton_2.pdf|archive-date=6 March 2016}}</ref> and even for use in its original role in the event of removal of the [[Russian Orbital Segment]] of the ISS.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marco-caceres/when-keeping-the-space-st_b_5326275.html|title=When Keeping the Space Station Open Suddenly Became a Cause Célèbre|last=Cáceres|first=Marco|work=[[The Huffington Post]]|date=14 May 2014}}</ref>