The head of Russia’s space agency has extended an offer to Moscow’s partners in the BRICS group – Brazil, India, China and South Africa – to participate in the construction of a joint module for its planned orbital space station
Construction of the planned space station follows Moscow’s decision last year to end its decades-long partnership with
and withdraw from the aging International Space Station – one of the last remaining channels of cooperation between Russia and the United States. The first stage of the planned space station, known as the Russian Orbital System , is expected to be launched in 2027, with another four modules dispatched to orbit between 2028 and 2030, the program’s leading designer Vladimir Kozhevnikov told Russian state media in February.
said last year it intended to keep operating the space station until the end of 2030, after which it would be de-orbited and crashed into a remote part of the Pacific Ocean. China, whose astronauts have long been excluded from the ISS, completed its own permanently crewed space station last year, with the first three astronauts docking in November. The station is only the second operational orbital outpost alongside the ISS.
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