Russia plans to exit the International Space Station after 2024.
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Russia plans to exit the International Space Station after 2024. The new head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, said on Tuesday at a meeting with Russian President Valdimir Putin. “Of course we will fulfill all our commitments to our partners, but the decision to exit this station after 2024 has been made,” said Borissov, whom Putin had previously appointed to succeed Dmitry Rogozin.
Rogozin had repeatedly questioned cooperation with the United States, also in view of political tensions between Moscow and Washington in the course of the war in Ukraine.
Borissov said that before the exit, the construction of a Russian space station should be started. The ISS had recently gotten old and had repeatedly caused a stir due to breakdowns.
Rogozin had previously not ruled out decoupling the Russian module from the ISS and continuing to operate it independently. He also indicated a possible use of the station for military earth observation. Following the war of aggression against Ukraine ordered by Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, Western countries have also imposed sanctions on the Russian space industry.
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