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°.

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The Progress MS-21 spacecraft was de-orbited today, entered the atmosphere and disintegrated, and its unburned part crashed into non-navigable waters of the South Pacific Ocean.

“The Progress MS-21 spacecraft left the space station at 5:26 Moscow time on February 18. The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public.

Since no damage was found during the photo shoot, the scheduled spacecraft de-orbit was delayed to analyze the information obtained. Ultimately, it was decided to let the spacecraft crash into the sea.

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The Russian space group said the remote sensing satellite will be sent into orbit by a Soyuz carrier rocket.

A year ago, it was announced that Russia was preparing to provide satellites to Iran, with plans to deliver a Russian-made Kanopus-V satellite equipped with a high-resolution camera.

Soyuz is the third generation of manned spacecraft developed by the Soviet Union, the spacecraft was designed by the Soviet Union’s First Design Bureau in the 1960s for the Soviet Union’s moon landing program and continues to be used by the Russian Federal Space Agency after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

After the retirement of the U.S. space shuttle in 2011 and until the first flight of the manned Dragon 2 on May 30, 2020, the Soyuz spacecraft is the only way for astronauts from all countries to travel to and from the International Space Station.

The low cost, excellent reliability and upgrade potential of Soyuz spacecraft have kept them active on the spaceflight scene 50 years after their first flight. As of 2021, there have been more than 140 missions on Soyuz spacecraft of all types.

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