Despite tensions with the West, the Russian space agency Roscosmos has pledged to continue participating in the International Space Station (ISS) until 2028. Your boss Yuri Borisov sent a letter to ISS partners in the US, Europe, Canada and Japan, the authority said on Tuesday.
In July last year, Moscow announced that it would leave the ISS after 2024 and build its own space station. “Of course we will fulfill all our obligations to our partners, but the decision to phase out this station after 2024 has been made,” Russia’s new Roscosmos space agency head Yuri Borisov said during the televised meeting with Putin.
“Most successful space project”
Now Borisow praised the collaboration on the ISS as “the largest and most successful project in space travel”. In the letter to the ISS partners, the 66-year-old wrote that he was “thrilled that this unique laboratory is continuing its work and helping to implement humanity’s boldest ideas for space development.”
Just two weeks ago, Borissov presented plans for his own space station to Russian President Vladimir Putin. This should serve, among other things, for a Russian moon mission. However, the station, which is estimated to cost 6.7 billion euros, is still only in the design phase.
The chief designer of the space company Energiya, which was commissioned to build it, Vladimir Solovyov, had stated in December last year that the first crew could fly to the National Space Station in 2028. Moscow independently operated the Mir space station from 1986 to 2001.
NASA plans to decommission ISS by 2030
Orbiting the Earth since 1998, the ISS is a joint project between the US, Canada, Japan, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia. It is divided into a Russian and an American segment. The operation of the space station was originally planned until 2024, but the American space agency NASA does not want to dismantle it until 2030.
Source: Krone
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