The new head of the Russian space agency said last week that the country intended to leave the International Space Station after 2024.
Some of the message may have gone missing in translation. Borisov said in an interview with Russia 24 that they intended to do this after 2024. These are two different things in Russian.
The interview was posted to the website in Russian and translated into English. Borisov explained the agency's intent to carry on according to agreements in the interview. Borisov said that the procedure for the withdrawal of the Russian side from the project is regulated.
The International Space Station can be seen and tracked.
We need to warn our colleagues in advance that we will do this. There is no need for us to warn NASA about this at this time. Borisov said in the interview that the exit process would begin after 2024. It can take up to two years to withdraw, he said. At some point in the future, such notice may come.
Russian space officials told their NASA counterparts last week that they want to stay in the partnership until Russia gets its own space station up and running, Borisov said.
Borisov said that they started to seriously think about developing a domestic orbital station. He cited the "authoritative opinion of many experts" that predicted the heightened possibility of cascade failures in the future.
The time that our cosmonauts, including American astronauts, spend on searching for possible malfunction and eliminating them starts to exceed all reasonable limits. Borisov claimed that this was done at the expense of scientific research.
NASA is considering its plans for low Earth access after the retirement of the International Space Station. Commercial space stations have been awarded funding by the American space agency in order to take over from the International Space Station. NASA wants to keep the lab up and running for another 15 years. Borisov thinks that returns will diminish before that later date.
The Russian section of the International Space Station doesn't have many useful science contributions left to make because many of the U.S. modules are newer than that.
The majority of the plans for this inclination have been completed. We don't see any more dividends by stretching this process until 2030. The funds that will be spent on maintaining the Russian part are very large.
The International Space Station's legacy is being looked at by NASA.
NASA hopes to continue flying the International Space Station through the end of the decade. The ability of a private American Cygnus cargo vehicle to perform an altitude correction for the space station was tested by NASA. Russian Soyuz and Progress vehicles have been used to carry out orbital correction.
The plan to deorbit the International Space Station in a controlled manner using three Russian Progress freighters is outlined in a report from a team of NASA and Roscosmos engineers. "In the opinion of our Western colleagues and our specialists, this will not be possible without Russian participation," Borisov said.
Thankfully, cooperation may be a priority for the new head of the Russian space agency, at least compared to his predecessor, who became well known for blustery and combative statements.
The project has enriched world science in the field of knowledge about the universe and the Earth, and has given all participants in the process new knowledge. Borisov believes that the projects should be out of politics. Sometimes our joint projects in space, which are of interest to all mankind, start to give a political coloring. It isn't correct.
Borisov conceded that the space agency had fallen behind others. The main players in this market are Americans, Europeans and Chinese, and they have been for a long time.
Borisov said that he intended to restructure the main processes of the technological cycle at the Russian space agency.
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