Vladimir Solovyev – Spress https://en.spress.net Spress is a general newspaper in English which is updated 24 hours a day. Wed, 21 Apr 2021 22:55:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 191965906 Russia will withdraw from the ISS and set up a new space station instead https://en.spress.net/russia-will-withdraw-from-the-iss-and-set-up-a-new-space-station-instead/ Wed, 21 Apr 2021 22:55:05 +0000 https://en.spress.net/russia-will-withdraw-from-the-iss-and-set-up-a-new-space-station-instead/ Russia will withdraw from the International Space Station (ISS) after the station ends in 2024, and is ready to set up a new space station to replace the current ISS.
“Russia will notify partner countries of the withdrawal from the ISS from 2025,” Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov told Rossiya-1 television channel on April 18. Russia will also consult with other countries on the future of cooperation after the ISS station stops operating.

International space station. Photo: Getty The Russian Deputy Prime Minister’s office also said that “information on operational incidents is being recorded more frequently than in recent times” and that an examination of the ISS is required to avoid possible emergency situations out. Astronauts have had to find a way to fix the leak due to cracks in some modules. Mr. Vladimir Solovyev, Deputy Director of Energia in charge of ISS of Russia in November 2020, said that some components of the ISS station were damaged, could not be replaced and would stop working after 2025. Energia is currently researching. to build a space station named Russia Orbital to replace ISS. The ISS was commissioned in 1998. The life cycle of this space station has been extended to 2020 and then to 2024. Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency, said after the ISS was shut down, the Progress cargo spacecraft would pull it out of orbit. Then, the ISS will fall into the ocean like the Russian Mir space station when decommissioned in 2001./.

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