New statements made to NASA suggest that Russia won't leave the space station until at least 2028 after all.
Russia is trying to flex its muscles amidst the tensions between countries that work on the International Space Station. On Tuesday, Yury Borisov, the new head of Roscosmos, told Putin that Russia will leave the International Space Station at some point in the not too distant future. According to NASA officials, Russia has retreated to a reasonable deadline and plans to keep its cosmonauts on the station until at least the year 2028.
Kathy Lueders, NASA associate administrator for space operations, said in an interview that they were not getting any indication that anything had changed.
Almost no one was surprised by this clarified timelines. Russia is not in a good position to commit to the construction of a new orbital lab due to its invasion of Ukraine and sanctions from the west. The Russian Orbital Space Station, known as ROSS, isn't expected to be ready for another decade.
Russian cosmonauts must stay on the International Space Station until ROSS is up and running, according to the flight director of Russia's space station segment. It will be difficult for Russia to restore what has been achieved if they stop crewed flights for a long time.
The sight of Russian cosmonauts leaving the International Space Station would be bad for the Kremlin.
The end of the partnership between NASA and Russia on the project will be marked by Russia's apparent commitment to leave the International Space Station. There is no known formal agreement between NASA and the Russian space agency that would allow Russia to stay on the International Space Station past the year 2024. NASA and its station partners plan to crash the International Space Station into the Pacific Ocean two years after Russia leaves, in order to save it.
Russia has a history of bad behavior while working with other nations. Europe's new robotic arm on the International Space Station was threatened by a former director of the Russian space agency. The threat was issued after the European Space Agency backed out of a collaborative Mars mission. The walk went on as planned.
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