Roscosmos and NASA have determined to maintain the Worldwide Area Station in service till 2028
Russia and the US have agreed to proceed area cooperation, extending joint operations aboard the Worldwide Area Station (ISS), in line with the Russian area company Roscosmos.
On Thursday, Roscosmos chief Dmitry Bakanov met performing NASA Administrator Sean Duffy in Houston, Texas. The assembly marked the primary in particular person talks between the heads of the 2 area businesses in eight years.
The 2 mentioned ongoing ISS operations, future lunar missions, and joint deep-space exploration initiatives.
“The dialogue went effectively,” Bakanov informed reporters after the assembly. “We agreed to proceed working the ISS till 2028,” he stated, including that discussions additionally coated deorbiting the station by 2030.
The ISS, the biggest area station ever constructed, has orbited Earth since 1998, serving as a novel platform for worldwide scientific analysis. Regardless of political tensions over the Ukraine battle, the ISS stays one of many few spheres of continued cooperation between Moscow and Washington.
Russia had beforehand indicated it would withdraw from this system after 2024 however later signaled a willingness to proceed.
Bakanov stated he had invited Duffy to attend a November launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome that may carry an American astronaut. The NASA chief agreed to attend.
A day earlier, the Roscosmos head met with members of NASA’s Crew-11 group, who’re getting ready to fly to the ISS. The crew contains Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, US astronauts Zena Cardman and Michael Fincke, and Japan’s Kimiya Yui. Their launch aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft from Kennedy Area Middle had been scheduled for Thursday however was postponed simply over a minute earlier than liftoff till Friday resulting from climate situations.
