Here’s how Putin accelerates on the new Russian space station
Russian President Putin announced that the first segment of the new Russian orbital station is expected to be put into operation by 2027. Moscow sees the outpost as the next logical development in space exploration after the International Space Station (ISS)
First segment of the new Russian space station in orbit by 2027.
This is what Russian President Vladimir Putin declared yesterday, speaking at a meeting with officials from the Russian space industry. Putin added that Moscow's decision to extend its participation in the ISS (International Space Station), which is now 25 years old, until 2028 is a temporary measure. This was echoed by Yuri Borisov, head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, who said that Russia must put its station into operation quickly or risk falling behind its rivals, including a joint project of the US, European, Canadian space agencies and Japanese. “The ISS is aging and will end around 2030,” Borisov specified.
The ISS is one of only two space stations in orbit, one of the last remaining channels of cooperation between Russia and the United States, together with the Chinese Tiangong space station.
The Russian president also vowed to continue Russia's lunar program despite the failure of the first moon landing attempt in 47 years. Last August , Russia's lunar probe crashed into the Moon. The robotic spacecraft Luna-25 was scheduled to land on lunar soil, a few days before the landing of India's Chandrayaan-3. It was the first Russian mission to the Earth's satellite since 1976.
According to Putin, the development of the station must proceed "all in good time" otherwise the Russian program risks falling behind in terms of the development of manned space flight. Russian authorities hope that the planned new orbital station will help develop technologies for future space flights, including those to the Moon and Mars.
MOSCOW'S PLANS BEYOND THE ISS
The ISS has been a symbol of diplomacy and international collaboration since its launch in 1998, but Russia said it would abandon the project after being largely cut off from the West following the war in Ukraine, SkyNews recalls. NASA said last year that it intended to keep the space station operational until the end of 2030, after which it will be deorbited to crash in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean.
So Putin aims to make the new Russian space station operational in 2027.
“As the resources of the International Space Station run out, we need not just one segment, but the entire station in operation,” the Russian president said, adding that “in 2027, the first segment should be put into orbit”
WORKING ON THE RUSSIAN SPACE STATION FROM NEXT YEAR
The new station, Putin specified, will have to "consider all the advanced achievements of science and technology and have the potential to tackle the tasks of the future".
The head of Roscosmos supported Putin's position as a means of maintaining the country's capabilities in manned space flight. “If we do not start large-scale work on creating a Russian orbital station in 2024, it is very likely that we will lose our capabilities due to the time gap. What I mean is that the ISS will no longer be there and the Russian station will not be ready.”
WHAT THE RUSSIAN ORBITAL SYSTEM WILL BE LIKE
In summer 2022, Roscosmos unveiled a physical model of what a Russian-designed space station will look like.
According to a timetable provided by the program's main designer, Vladimir Kozhevnikov, last February the first stage of the planned space station, known as the Russian Orbital System (ROS), is expected to launch in 2027, with four more modules sent into orbit between 2028 and 2030.
Ros will initially include two astronauts, meaning each crew member will have more tasks and broader responsibilities than on the ISS, Russian state media reported earlier this year, citing Roscosmos.
So now we know that 2027 is a priority goal for Putin to have the Russian outpost in orbit operational.
OPEN PARTICIPATION IN THE BRICS
Meanwhile, last July the head of the Russian space agency had extended an invitation to Moscow's partners in the BRICS group – Brazil, India, China and South Africa – to participate in the construction of a joint module for its planned orbital space station , as reported by CNN .
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/ecco-come-putin-accelera-sulla-nuova-stazione-spaziale-russa/ on Fri, 27 Oct 2023 13:49:55 +0000.