Not even the International Space Station – ISS it is immune to geopolitical tensions. The Russian space agency, the Roscosmosannounced on Telegram that it plans to end all participation in the international project from 2024.
In short, in less than two years, the cosmonauts will leave the ISS, probably forever. Over there Russia now operates on a national orbital station.
The divorce had been in the air for some time, but the decision to stop participating in the project was said to have been made official only recently, after a meeting between Yury Borisov, N.1 of Roscosmos, the leaders of the space agency, and thus the president Vladimir Putin.
It’s not exactly a bolt from the blue. Several statements made in the recent past had exposed the growing intolerance of the Russians, exacerbated by the sanctions passed after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. “We will notify our partners with at least one year’s notice,” the agency said recently. And at least there they kept their word.
But even without the Russians, the future of the International Space Station is still uncertain. The ‘expiry date’ is set at 2028, when the ISS will be dismantled. NASA doesn’t seem interested in revamping the project, which will likely be replaced by other similar but privately designed outposts in space. An example? Blue Origin’s Orbital Reef, company of Jeff Bezos.
Source: Lega Nerd
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