The head of the Russian Federal Space Agency Юрий Борисов last year said Russia will withdraw from the International Space Station project after 2024. In February this year, Russia proposed to extend the life of the Russian segment of the ISS until 2028.
Today, Roscosmos President Borisov said that the Russian segment of the ISS will be extended until 2028. The Russian space agency’s plan is not to withdraw from the ISS project until its own station, ROSS, is “in the sky.
For some time last year, the industry debated whether Russia would withdraw from the ISS after the head of Roscosmos hinted that it would withdraw from the project in 2024, but Roscosmos subsequently informed NASA that it would not withdraw from the project until at least 2028.
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Earlier today, Vladimir Kozhivnikov, deputy chief designer of the Russian rocket space company “Energy”, said that the construction of the Russian orbital station will start in 2024.
He said that the Russian orbital station will be built in two steps between 2028 and 2035, with the sketch design to be completed in the summer of 2023 and the full construction of the station planned for 2032, instead of 2035 as previously planned.
“Consideration is being given to sending the first modular module into orbit in 2027 and completing the deployment of the Russian orbital station in 2032,” Kozhevnikov said in an interview with the Russian newspaper.
The first phase of the Russian Orbital Station ROSS includes four basic modules, and the second phase includes three modules with target and production modules and a service platform.
It is worth mentioning that the orbital inclination of ROSS is as high as 96~98°, that is, it almost runs around the north and south poles. The orbital inclination of the ISS is 51.6° and that of the Chinese space station is 42°.
