Russia in 2025 will be released from the project of the International Space Station (ISS) and will start creating a new national orbital station. About this on the air TV channel “Russia 1” said Vice Prime Minister Yury Borisov, reports RIA Novosti on Sunday, April 18.
It is noted that this decision was made on April 12 at a meeting with the President of the country Vladimir Putin.
At the same time, in the press service of Roskosmos, they stated that MCS modules developed their resource, the international space station would work until 2024. The state corporation noted that the prospects for international cooperation in this area should be the subject of negotiations.
“When we decide [about plans to deploy the national orbital service station of a new generation], then begin negotiations with our partners about the conditions and forms of interaction after 2024,” explained in the press service.
previously in “Roskosmos” offered to abandon the International Space Station (ISS) due to the high cost. In the state corporation, they calculated that after 2025 avalanche-like failure of the ISS systems will begin, as a result of which further maintenance of the station will cost 10-15 billion rubles.
MCS is operated since the end of 1998, the service life expires in 2024, but the extension of the term of operation until 2030 is considered.