2023-04-29 01:58:34
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NASA announcesAll ISS partners agreed to continue to support the operation of the space station. Among them, the United States, Japan, Canada and the European Union will support it until 2030, while Russia will support it until 2028. Earlier, Yuri Borisov, director of the Russian space agency Roscomos, said that the agency would leave the International Space Station “following 2024″, but this itself has a lot of ambiguity. After all, 2025, 2028 and even 2030 are considered ” following 2024″.
After Russia invaded Ukraine last year, Western countries led by the United States announced economic sanctions once morest Russia, and Russia responded by saying that it would end all kinds of cooperation with the West. This included Dmitry Rogozin, the former director of Roscoms, but fortunately, he stopped talking in the end and did not really seriously affect the operation of the International Space Station. However, the United States is still preparing for the possibility of Russia’s sudden withdrawal, and even the possibility of requiring the part of the space station that belongs to Russia to be separated from other parts. This includes planning how to get astronauts back from the space station, and how to maintain orbital altitude without the assistance of Russian rocket engines. Hopefully, these records will not be used once more.
The final years of the International Space Station’s life will shift from conducting scientific experiments to supporting civilian space activities, especially with Axiom Space. In addition to providing space tourism services, Axiom also plans to launch its own modules to the International Space Station, and then become independent as a private space station in the future.
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