Russia will withdraw from the International Space Station (ISS) project with the West after 2024, the new head of the country’s space agency Roscosmos, Yury Borisov, said this week.
Moscow intends to fulfill all its obligations to foreign partners as part of the ISS project, but the decision to withdraw from this station after 2024 has been made, Borisov told President Vladimir Putin during a meeting at the Kremlin.
By that time, we’ll start putting together a Russian orbital station. According to Borisov’s vision, Russia’s manned space flights should form part of a systematic scientific program, so that each mission would provide the country with new knowledge.
The previous head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, had predicted that the ISS, which NASA plans to operate until 2030, would fall apart by that time unless huge amounts of money are invested in its repair.
But efforts to keep the station in orbit are no longer effective for Russia due to the current created geopolitical environment. Borisov also acknowledged in April that the Russian station modules have exhausted their lifespans.
The ISS was launched in 1998 as a joint effort by Russian, American, Japanese, Canadian and European space agencies. It’s divided into Russian and American sections, with the latter being run by the USA and other participants of the project.
Roscosmos had earlier shared the sketches of its replacement for the ISS, the Russian Orbital Service Station (ROSS). It’s planned to make the station automated, with the cosmonauts only arriving there to service and replace the equipment.
ROSS will consist of four modules and a spacecraft-maintenance platform. It’s being designed to host a crew of two to four people.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point News 2022.
This is very smart. That station is old and full of issues. Best to build a new one.
Wondering how the others will take the News, they’re all going to have to spend millions and millions of Citizen’s Tax for a piece of Scrap in space. It’s going to have to maintained or brought back down to Earth. They’ve been using Russia as the Gopher for the last decade now let the Gopher leave them with headache.
NASA can no longer build rockets, but development of the first drag queen spacesuits are going great! If successful, the new suits will be able to accommodate quintuple E breast implants and 10-inch-tall wigs, while enhanced mobility will allow unrestricted twerking.
There we go ………………