You can't leave. Russia will be at the International Space Station by 2028: Why

The ISS itself will cease to operate in orbit in 2030 and by this time the work of the ISS will support the remaining 15 countries of participants in the international space project, New Atlas writes. In focus. Technology has appeared its Telegram channel.

Subscribe not to miss the latest and most intrusive news from the world of science! Shortly after the start of the full -scale war of Russia against Ukraine, the last leader of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin was repeatedly threatened by the Russian Federation with the ISS. Then it became known that Russia will leave the orbital station after about 2024 and will begin to create its own space station in orbit.

In particular, the new head of the Russian space agency Yuri Borisov stated this in July last year. Such decisions arose from the Russians as a response to the sanction pressure of the West countries on the aggressor country. Of course, in Western space agencies, such reports have caused anxiety, because the ISS is quite dependent on Russia.

If Russia had decided to leave the ISS in the near future, it would most likely be failed by its segments of the station, which is a very high risk to the safety of the orbital object. The worst scenario, which was considered in NASA, provided the Russian Federation is released from space cooperation is the end of the ISS work 5 years earlier than the scheduled period. In this case, the space station would be controlled by orbit and flooded in the Pacific.

But recently Russia has officially agreed to stay with the ISS until 2028. Although the relations between the Russian Federation and the Western countries do not make this cooperation very pleasant against the backdrop of war in Ukraine. But this way, the ISS will be saved from destruction for a while. At the same time, the European Space Agency and the same agencies of Canada and Japan, and of course NASA, will continue to work at the ISS until 2030.

That is, the orbital station will end its life finally in 7 years. The International Space Station was created in 1998, and after 2 years, it began to change the crew constantly on it, which is still happening. According to NASA, 266 astronauts from 20 countries, which conducted more than 3,300 different scientific researches, have visited orbit. Although the ISS will still work for 7 years in NASA are actively engaged in searching for its replacement.