By Eliza Popova
The termination of the station was postponed several times, but after the invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine at the beginning of 2022 the key participants of the project voiced the refusal to support the ICS. The Russians will cease cooperation with the ISS in 2024, and they have already announced the development of their own station. The US authorities, instead, plan to operate the ISS by 2030.
To do this, they will have to solve the problem of adjusting the orbit of the station, which is made by Russian engines today. China, meanwhile, launched its own Tianunist station, which has accepted nine astronauts since its operation in April 2021. In addition to the ISS, by the end of this decade, NASA plans to launch several new orbital stations with the support of private contractors.
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