Russia has started developing its own space station – Roskosmos
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Russia has started developing its own space station. This was announced by the executive director for the space program of the state corporation “Roscosmos” Sergey Krikalev during a press conference on sending messages to the ISS of the Crew-5 mission.
“We are thinking about building a new space station. We are starting preliminary design work,” he is quoted as saying. TASS.
Krikalev added that the company has not yet said exactly what modules the domestic station can consist of and how it will be built. At the same time, he firmly believes that there can also be global cooperation at the Russian station.
In addition, the representative of Roskosmos stressed that Russian cosmonauts continue to fly to the ISS until the Russian Federation has an orbital infrastructure.
At the end of July, Roscosmos CEO Yuri Borisov said that the state corporation had decided to withdraw from the ISS project after 2024. He said that the Russian side will fulfill all obligations to foreign partners.
Borisov added that by that time Roskosmos would start forming the Russian Orbital Service Station (ROSS). On his initiative, the implementation of this project has become a precedent for the domestic space industry.
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