Continuation: “Roskosmos” refused to abandon the ISS
Some elements of the International Space Station (ISS) are seriously damaged and cannot be replaced with new ones, the First Deputy General Director of the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia (part of the Russian Academy of Sciences) said about Russian manned cosmonautics about Russian manned cosmonautics. in “Roskosmos”) Vladimir Soloviev. His statement is cited by the portal “Scientific Russia”.
According to him, after 2025, an avalanche-like failure of the ISS systems will begin, as a result of which further maintenance of the station will become too expensive. “The costs of further financing, which are estimated at 10-15 billion rubles, are too high,” Soloviev admitted.
To replace the ISS, Energia proposed to create a Russian Orbital Service Station (ROSS), which, in particular, provides for an unmanned operation. Solovyov is confident that the rotational work of the cosmonauts will reduce the radiation load on them.
In November, cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Sergei Kud-Sverchkov went into outer space from the ISS, but could not fulfill their task.
In September, a leak was recorded on the Zvezda module of the ISS Russian segment, which, according to Roscosmos, provided a total drop in atmospheric pressure at the station at the level of 1 millimeter of mercury in eight hours.
In the same month, Energia's first deputy general director, Sergei Romanov, announced that in November 2020 and February 2021, Russian cosmonauts would go into outer space to prepare the Pirs module of the ISS Russian segment for detachment from the near-Earth laboratory. According to him, subsequently, in 2021, the Progress spacecraft together with the Pirs module will be flooded in the Pacific Ocean. Romanov recalled that instead of Pirs, the Nauka module will be attached to the ISS, the launch of which to the near-earth laboratory, previously repeatedly postponed, is now scheduled for April 2021.
