Russia has confirmed that it will quit the International Space Station (ISS) in 2028 after initially threatening to leave four years earlier.
Tensions continue over the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and it is spilling into every other dealing the country has with the US. The space monitoring program started decades ago, but even it is not out of the range of earthly disagreements.
The administration is reacting in kind with the US applying sanctions and forcing tech companies to twist Putin’s arms. However, Yury Borisov, the Director General of Roscosmos, assured the public that it would complete its part of the agreement before seizing collaboration. Also, he added that the Russian space agency would inform its partners one year in advance before quitting.
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The 2028 date is two years too early for NASA, which plans to keep the floating space lab functioning until 2030 when it planned to de-orbit it and crash its remains into the South Pacific Ocean.
Meanwhile, Robyn Gatens, NASA’s director of the ISS, had claimed to have not heard any official statement from her colleagues in Russia. Although, she did mention that the country was just thinking of its next action after the space station stopped operation.
“As we are planning transition after 2030 to commercially operated space stations in low-Earth orbit, they have a similar plan. And so they’re thinking about that transition as well,” Gatens told CNN.
Russia is working on its own sustained space station and hopes to start working on one by 2024. Also, it plans to use its space activities to directly improve the country’s economy through better communication, data transmission, and meteorological and geodetic information services.
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