Roscosmos Chief Informs Partners Of Space Station's Life Extension To 2028
Date
4/26/2023 7:29:40 PM
(MENAFN- AzerNews) Roscosmos Head Yury Borisov has sent out letters to the space
agency chiefs from the partner countries to inform them of Russia's
decision to extend the operation of the International Space Station
(ISS) to 2028, the Roscosmos press office reported on Tuesday.
"Today State Space Corporation Roscosmos Director General Yury
Borisov has informed the heads of the space agencies from the
partner countries under the project of the International Space
Station that the Russian government has approved the extension of
Russia's participation in the project to 2028," the press office
said in a statement.
In particular, the letters were sent to US National Aeronautics
and Space Administration (NASA) Head Bill Nelson, European Space
Agency (ESA) Director General Josef Aschbacher, Canadian Space
Agency (CSA) President Lisa Campbell and Japanese Minister of
Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Keiko
Nagaoka.
"The ISS program is the largest and the most successful
international space project and I am glad that such a unique
laboratory will continue its operation and will contribute to
implementing humankind's most audacious plans of space
exploration," the press office quoted the Roscosmos chief as
saying.
Roscosmos Chief Borisov told TASS in November last year that the
term of Russia's participation in the ISS project would depend on
the technical condition of the Russian segment, the timeframe of
deploying the new Russian Orbital Station (ROS), the commencement
of space flights to the national orbiter and some other
factors.
In late February 2023, the Roscosmos scientific-technical
council held a meeting attended by the leadership of the space
corporation, its subsidiaries and organizations of the Russian
Academy of Sciences acting as contractors under the ISS Russian
segment project. Following the results of the meeting, the
scientific-technical council approved the decision on extending the
service life of the orbital outpost's Russian segment to 2028 and
began preparing relevant documents for the government.
On April 12 this year, Borisov told Russian President Vladimir
Putin that the government had made a decision to extend the
operation of the ISS Russian segment to 2028.
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