Moscow said Tuesday it was leaving the International Space Station 'after 2024' amid tensions with the West, in a move analysts warned could lead to a halt of Russian-crewed flights.
Moscow said Tuesday it was leaving the International Space Station"after 2024" amid tensions with the West, in a move analysts warned could lead to a halt of Russian-crewed flights.The confirmation of the long-mooted move comes as ties unravel between the Kremlin and the West over Moscow's military intervention in Ukraine and several rounds of devastating sanctions against Russia, including its space sector.
"I think that by this time we will start putting together a Russian orbital station," Borisov added, calling it the domestic space program's main"priority".The ISS is due to be retired after 2024, although US space agency NASA says it can remain operational until at least 2030. Until now, space exploration has been one of the few areas where cooperation between Russia and the United States and its allies had not been wrecked by tensions over Ukraine and elsewhere.Russia is heavily reliant on imports of everything from manufacturing equipment to consumer goods, and the effects of Western sanctions are expected to wreak havoc on the country's economy in the long term."If the ISS ceases to exist in 2024, we will have nowhere to fly," Lukashevich told AFP.
"Neither in 2024, nor in 2025, nor in 2026 will there be a Russian orbital station," Yegorov told AFP. The move could also see Russia abandon its chief spaceport, Baikonur, which it is renting from Kazakhstan, Yegorov said.
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