According to the head of Roscosmos, and Moscow has plans to start construction on its own space outpost
Yury Borisov, the new director of the country’s space agency Roscosmos, announced on Tuesday that Russia will stop working on the International Space Station (ISS) project with the West after 2024.
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While Borisov informed President Vladimir Putin at a meeting at the Kremlin that Moscow plans to fulfill all of its duties to foreign partners as part of the ISS project, “the decision to depart from this station after 2024 has been made.”
The space administrator said, “I expect at that point, we’ll start assembling a Russian orbiting station.”
In Borisov’s view, Russia’s human space missions ought to be a component of an organized scientific program, so that each trip would give the nation new information.
The ISS, which NASA intends to keep in operation until 2030, will “fall apart” by that time unless “huge amounts of money” are invested in its repair, according to the previous head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin.
However, he noted that Russia’s attempts to keep the station in orbit are no longer successful given the present geopolitical situation.
In April, Borisov also recognized that the Russian station modules have reached the end of their useful lives.
The Russian, American, Japanese, Canadian, and European space organizations collaborated to launch the ISS in 1998. It is split into American and Russian portions, with the latter being managed by the US and other project members.
Roscosmos previously revealed the concept art for the Russian Orbital Service Station, which would replace the International Space Station (ROSS). The station will be automated, with cosmonauts only needed to maintain and repair the machinery. Four components plus a platform for spaceship repair make up ROSS. A crew of between two and four people will be able to stay there.
