Russia to quit International Space Station 'after 2024'

[Still Waters]

Russia has decided to quit the International Space Station "after 2024", the newly-appointed chief of Moscow's space agency told President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday.

The announcement comes as tensions rage between the Kremlin and the West over Moscow's military intervention in Ukraine and several rounds of unprecedented sanctions against Russia.

Russia and the United States have worked side by side on the ISS, which has been in orbit since 1998.

"Of course, we will fulfill all our obligations to our partners, but the decision to leave this station after 2024 has been made," Yury Borisov, who was appointed Roscosmos chief in mid-July, told Putin.

https://phys.org/news/2022-07-russia-international-space-station.html

[Still Waters]

NASA says no 'official word' from Russia on quitting ISS

https://phys.org/news/2022-07-nasa-word-russia-iss.html

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Russia Says It Will Quit International Space Station After 2024

 

Jul 26, 2022 Russia has announced it will withdraw from the International Space Station after 2024 to focus on building their own space station. NBC's Tom Costello reports.

 

 

 

[Bed of chaos]

Supposedly, Russia will begin it's own orbital station. Which sounds great, like when General Zod landed on the moon.

[Still Waters]

The head of Russia's space agency said Friday that the country has not set a date for pulling out of the International Space Station and that the timing would depend on the orbiting outpost's condition.

Yuri Borisov, who was appointed this month to lead the Roscosmos state space corporation, told President Vladimir Putin this week that a decision was made for Russia to leave the station after 2024 and to focus on building its own orbiting station.

NASA and its partners hope to continue operating the 24-year-old International Space Station until 2030, and the Russian announcement threw that plan into doubt.

https://phys.org/news/2022-07-russian-space-chief-date-station.html

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Doesn't NASA have plans to put it in the Pacific in 2024? I thought they did. I know it's going there at some point.

[Still Waters]

Russia space agency seeking to extend ISS participation past 2024: official

Sergei Krikalev, head of Russia's human space flight programs, told reporters that Roscosmos had started "to discuss extending our participation in ISS program with our government and hope to have permission to continue next year."

With ties between Russia and the West rupturing over the war in Ukraine, Roscosmos chief Yuri Borissov had announced over the summer that Russia would leave the ISS "after 2024", and would seek to build its own space station.

He has not set a firm date for that plan.

https://phys.org/news/2022-10-russia-space-agency-iss.html