Moscow. The 21st of April. INTERFAX.RU – About 80% of the equipment on the Russian segment of the ISS has exhausted its resource, its maintenance will require the same amount of funds as the creation of a separate station, the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin told reporters on Wednesday.
“There is a consensus between the government and Roscosmos that this is necessary. This is the first,” Rogozin said.
Secondly, according to him, the authorities understand that “maintenance of the Russian segment of the ISS, including the dispatch of ships, maintenance of the necessary equipment at the station, which today is already about 80% out of service”, will require about the same amount of funds, “as will be needed from 2025 to 2030 for the deployment of a separate Russian orbital station. “
Rogozin also said that the scientific and energy module, which was planned to be sent to the ISS, will be finalized for use in the new Russian orbital station.
“The scientific energy module is a completely new module of a new generation. It will, of course, be redesigned. Because it is one thing to send it to the ISS, and another thing is to form a base module of a new orbital station on its basis. Much more independence will be required. with regard to orientation in space, energy and much more, “- said the head of Roskosmos.
On April 20, Rogozin announced that the first module of the new Russian orbital station will be ready in 2025, its construction has already begun. “The first basic module for the new Russian orbital service station is already in operation. The Energia Rocket and Space Corporation has been tasked to ensure its readiness for launch into the target orbit in 2025,” Rogozin wrote in his telegram channel.
The video, published by the head of Roskosmos, indicates that this is a scientific and energy module. In November 2020, Rogozin reported that NEM could “initiate the construction of a new station.” Earlier it was reported that the module should be ready in 2024.
Exit from the ISS project and a new orbital station of the Russian Federation
Russia plans to build its own orbital station, the exit from the ISS project is being considered, and this is due to the deterioration of the technical condition of the Russian segment of the station.
Russia will be able to finance the construction of a new orbital station itself, but is also ready for cooperation, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said on April 19, noting that the station could be “a kind of intermediate point for flights and exploration of the Moon and lunar space.”
The Russian Federation currently has plans to actively finance the project to create an independent space station until 2030, it can cost up to $ 6 billion, an informed source told Interfax the day before.
The Russian leadership has approved the decision to create an independent Russian orbital station, the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper wrote on April 12. An informed source of Interfax on April 13 said that the project to create an independent Russian space station had not been approved, and the parameters for its financing had not been determined either. “There is no decision. The package of proposals is really ready, but not agreed,” the agency's interlocutor said at the time.
Deputy Prime Minister Borisov announced his intention to notify the partners in the International Space Station in advance about the withdrawal from the ISS project. The office of the deputy chairman of the government said that Russian specialists will conduct a technical survey of the International Space Station (ISS), on the basis of which its future will be decided.
