Russia confirms participation in the ISS after 2024
Russia has confirmed participation in the International Space Station project after 2024. This is stated in the results of the meeting of the ISS Coordinating Council. It was published August 10 on the site of European astronauts. Earlier, Roskosmos announced a withdrawal from the project.
On July 28, the head of the state corporation, Yuri Borisov, at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, said that Russia had decided to withdraw the ISS project after 2024. When the station’s extended service life ends, the project participants will have to renew its safety.
Borisov then said that by 2024 Russia was going to form a mobile orbital station. This promise is practically unrealistic. Now in Russia not a single element of the future station is ready.
- The Nauka module, which was planned to be the base module for it, was docked to the ISS, having been in orbit 14 years later than the estimated time.
- The future basic Science and Energy Module should be sent to the ISS as early as 2014. As of the spring of last year, only the hull was ready for it.
- Nodal module “Prichal” Built for almost 10 years and was sent to the ISS.
- The Angara-A5M rocket, which is supposed to put the base module into orbit, is scheduled for the first launch only in 2024.
- The gateway module exists only as a project.
NASA said earlier that no special rebate is expected from Russia on exit plans. U.S. agency space operations chief Kathy Lueders later told Reuters that Russia intended to remain on the station until at least 2028.
The executive director of the corporation for manned programs, Sergei Krikalev, at a press conference on August 4, specified that “an exit after 2024” could attack in 2025, and in 2028, and in 2030.