Russia's new space chief confirms it will leave ISS after 2024
(2022/07/26)
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Hopes that the departure of Russian space chief Dmitry Rogozin from Roscosmos will improve global space relations have been crushed. New boss Yuri Borisov today confirmed a post-2024 withdrawal from the International Space Station project.
[1]It isn't the first time this particular sabre has been rattled . In 2021, Roscosmos indicated that the first module of Russia's new homegrown space station could be launched by 2025 once President Vladimir Putin gave the agency the nod to start on the project.
Ah, you know what? Keep your crappy space station, we're gonna try to make our own, Russia tells world [2]READ MORE
[3]According to Russian mouthpiece, Tass, the decision to withdraw from the International Space Station once obligations are fulfilled (ie, as 2025 rolls around) has been made, and the new boss of Roscosmos, Borisov, will build the Russian Orbital Service Station (ROSS).
In 2021, then Deputy Prime Minister Borisov worried that the deteriorating state of the ISS could lead to "catastrophe" although Rogozin warned that simultaneously supporting the ISS while building a new Russian station at the same time would stretch the perilous finances of Roscosmos beyond breaking point.
The ISS itself seems set to continue until at least 2030. NASA [4]expects commercial outfits to make use of the outpost after 2024 and eventually take over Low Earth Orbit operations while the US space agency focuses on missions to the Moon.
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NASA and Roscosmos recently signed an agreement to fly Russian cosmonauts on US vehicles in return for flying US astronauts aboard the Soyuz.
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While it is highly unlikely that Russia will simply detach its modules and fly off into the orbital night, as visualized by some of Rogozin's more colorful social media outbursts, the state of the Russian segment is a matter of concern. The first module of the ISS, Zarya, is approaching its 25th anniversary on orbit. Russia's other major contribution, the Zvezda module, was launched in 2000 (although constructed far earlier for the Mir 2 project.)
[8]SpaceX crewed flight to ISS delayed by damaged rocket
[9]AWS sent edgy appliance to the ISS and it worked – just like all the other computers up there
[10]US Space Development Agency invests $1.3b in missile tracking satellites
[11]Returning to the Moon on the European Service Module
Cracks [12]were found in the Zarya module last year, months after minor air-leaks were repaired in a transfer chamber, part of the Zvezda module. [13]And then there was the Nauka fiasco , where the just-docked Russian module unexpectedly fired its thrusters and set the ISS spinning.
As such, a possible lack of participation by Russia following 2024 will leave managers concerned over any further failures that might occur in the country's segment. Alternatives exist for other ISS services provided by Russia, including the Progress freighter and reboost of the venerable space station.
NASA has yet to make a formal response to the Russian announcement, and an official at the US space agency said that no notification had been given of withdrawal, [14]according to Reuters . ®
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[1]It isn't the first time this particular sabre has been rattled . In 2021, Roscosmos indicated that the first module of Russia's new homegrown space station could be launched by 2025 once President Vladimir Putin gave the agency the nod to start on the project.
Ah, you know what? Keep your crappy space station, we're gonna try to make our own, Russia tells world [2]READ MORE
[3]According to Russian mouthpiece, Tass, the decision to withdraw from the International Space Station once obligations are fulfilled (ie, as 2025 rolls around) has been made, and the new boss of Roscosmos, Borisov, will build the Russian Orbital Service Station (ROSS).
In 2021, then Deputy Prime Minister Borisov worried that the deteriorating state of the ISS could lead to "catastrophe" although Rogozin warned that simultaneously supporting the ISS while building a new Russian station at the same time would stretch the perilous finances of Roscosmos beyond breaking point.
The ISS itself seems set to continue until at least 2030. NASA [4]expects commercial outfits to make use of the outpost after 2024 and eventually take over Low Earth Orbit operations while the US space agency focuses on missions to the Moon.
[5]
NASA and Roscosmos recently signed an agreement to fly Russian cosmonauts on US vehicles in return for flying US astronauts aboard the Soyuz.
[6]
[7]
While it is highly unlikely that Russia will simply detach its modules and fly off into the orbital night, as visualized by some of Rogozin's more colorful social media outbursts, the state of the Russian segment is a matter of concern. The first module of the ISS, Zarya, is approaching its 25th anniversary on orbit. Russia's other major contribution, the Zvezda module, was launched in 2000 (although constructed far earlier for the Mir 2 project.)
[8]SpaceX crewed flight to ISS delayed by damaged rocket
[9]AWS sent edgy appliance to the ISS and it worked – just like all the other computers up there
[10]US Space Development Agency invests $1.3b in missile tracking satellites
[11]Returning to the Moon on the European Service Module
Cracks [12]were found in the Zarya module last year, months after minor air-leaks were repaired in a transfer chamber, part of the Zvezda module. [13]And then there was the Nauka fiasco , where the just-docked Russian module unexpectedly fired its thrusters and set the ISS spinning.
As such, a possible lack of participation by Russia following 2024 will leave managers concerned over any further failures that might occur in the country's segment. Alternatives exist for other ISS services provided by Russia, including the Progress freighter and reboost of the venerable space station.
NASA has yet to make a formal response to the Russian announcement, and an official at the US space agency said that no notification had been given of withdrawal, [14]according to Reuters . ®
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Russian mir
elsergiovolador
They should think of how to get population to have access to a toilet and running water, but I guess it is easier to defraud money through building a fake space station, that nobody will be able to inspect.
Re: Russian mir
VoiceOfTruth
They could perhaps take lessons from Flint, Michigan on drinking water.
jpo234
"after 2024" is a long time and includes 2030, the year the US plans to decommision the ISS.
NASA says "we've heard nothing official"
Gene Cash
https://spacenews.com/nasa-no-notification-by-russia-to-end-iss-participation/
The Russian gasbags have said this on social media several times before, and I think they realize it'll make them look like luddites if they actually do it. It'll be seen as an "admission" that their part of the station couldn't go the distance.
How about...
jeff_w87
If you want to keep it flying how about planning on replacing the Russian modules with modules built elsewhere (either government or commercial). It won't be easy or cheap, but it's probably cheaper than trying to build a brand new space station from scratch.
Considering Roscosmos's budget, the plans to build their own space station seem on par with that of a snowball in hell. But then again considering the Russian level of concern for their troops on the ground in Ukraine, if they consider the lives of their cosmonauts on the similar level, then you know removing all that safety stuff should make it considerably cheaper...