Posted on 07/28/2022 6:40:12 AM PDT by Ebenezer
(Translation)
Russia will discontinue operating in the International Space Station (ISS) "after 2024", Russian agency Roscosmos head Yuri Borissov announced.
"We will fulfill without doubt our obligations toward our partners" in the International Space Station, Borissov stated during a televised meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. "But the decision has been made to leave that station after 2024," he specified.
Since the invasion of Ukraine, rumors that Russia might abandon that international collaboration had been constant.
It was said that, in the first days of the invasion, Dmitri Rogozin, who was [then] responsible for Roscosmos, said that the Russian rockets that supplied the International Space Station might be affected by the international sanctions, which would have an impact on the Russian segment of the station and, in the worst-case scenario, could provoke the "splashing down or landing of the International Space Station which weighs 500 tons."
If they take the center module I believe NASA has a replacement stored in a warehouse encase the Russians failed to get their module launched
The Russian half is junk anyway.
We wouldn’t have it if it wasn’t for the Russians. I’m sure the astronauts on both sides will be disappointed if they don’t continue their quest in one way or another.
And Mr Musk sez “Huh ... We’re only launching one every week. Plenty of room in the manifest for a few more.”
The US half controls the station attitude. We didn’t want to share the CMG technology with Russia. The Russian half controls all the orbit adjust thrusting. Each half is monitored and control by the ground controllers of their respective country. If either country pulls out it falls apart.
For most of obama’ reign, the Russians were the only ones capable to resupply it.
Good!
The space station is an expensive as hell political project. It does return science but at great cost. This same science can be done at a fraction of the cost via unmanned science packages in orbit.
De orbit it over the Pacific and watch the light show.
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