Work on creating the National Orbital Space Station is ahead of schedule. The head of the state corporation “Roscosmos” Yuri Borisov told the President of Russia during a personal meeting on the day of astronautics.
At the moment, work on creating a design project for the station is being completed, but its main parameters and stages of creation have been determined. The first block of the future Russian orbital station is also practically ready. This will be the science and energy module, which was created for the ISS, but will be used for the benefit of the domestic program. Roscosmos has big plans for a new space station. In the future, it will become a base for the study of near space, as well as for the study of the moon.
The preliminary design will be ready this summer, but today the main parameters and appearance of the station, the stages of its creation are already well known to us. The new orbit, the new radiative environment will make it possible to go further and to master the technologies that will be necessary for deep space, in particular for the lunar program. This is one of the advantages of the new orbit of the Russian station
- said Yuri Borisov.
After the science and energy module has been put into orbit, other elements of the future station will begin to dock there. The second stage will send the nodal and airlock elements into space using the Angara-5M launch vehicle. The first of them will become the center for the further construction of the complex, and the second will be used for astronaut spacewalks.
It is planned that no later than 2028, Russian cosmonauts will start working on the domestic orbital station. In order not to interrupt the manned launches of spacecraft, the operation of the Russian segment of the ISS has been extended for such a period.
Vladimir Putin stressed the importance of developing space projects in the Russian Federation and congratulated all industry workers on the holiday.
I would like to wish your entire huge team success in space exploration. We keep saying it’s extremely important for our country, for all of humanity.
said the president.
Photos used: Kirill Borisenko/wikimedia.org
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