Russia has laid out a comprehensive roadmap for the construction of its new space station and related surface infrastructure, with the first modules expected to be introduced within three years.
On July 2, the leaders of the Russian firm Roscosmos defined their next project to create the country’s new station, known lately as the Russian Orbital Service Station (ROSS), according to the Russian news firm TASSArray.
The first module of the X-shaped outpost, a survey and energy node, is expected to be introduced into a near-polar orbit in 2027, TASS reported. By 2030, it plans to have docked its 4 main modules, with two “special purpose” modules scheduled to be connected until 2033. Roscosmos plans to send the first cosmonauts to the station in 2028 and has reported that the station can be operated by a crew.
The Russian orbital refueling station would orbit at the same altitude as the International Space Station, about 400 km above Earth, in a sun-synchronous polar orbit. According to Roscosmos, this direction is useful for observing the entire surface of the planet. and also offers a valuable insight into “the strategic Northern Sea Route. ” The estimated cost is approximately $7 billion.
The ROSS structure program also relies on the good fortune of the next-generation Angara A5 heavy rocket, which has had three successful orbital flight tests since 2014 and a partial failure in 2021.
It is very likely that its structure also involves a novelty: it seems that Russia is assembling the AI rocket.
“Artificial intelligence is an emerging technology,” said Vladimir Kozhevnikov, lead designer of ROS, on July 2, according to a TASS report. “We’ll use their support, but in essence we’ll use our brains, of course. “It is unknown what form this AI takes: Will ChatGPT get build credits in the ROSS modules?
Another leader designer, Vladimir Solovyov of area rocket corporate Energia, ROSS would have “unusual” goals, with the area station offering steerage for a fleet of satellites – a first.
“This fleet will fly near the station [. . . ] and will also involve absolutely new project tasks, something that no one has tried to do so far,” Soloviev said.
Russia has been a core member of the International Space Station since its launch, along with NASA, the European Space Agency, JAXA, and the Canadian Space Agency. For its new season, there are partnerships with Brazil, India, China and South Africa, as well as with other African countries.
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In 2021, Roscosmos signaled its goal to build its own space laboratory, a successor to its Mir space station. In mid-2022, following the invasion of Ukraine and increased tensions between Russia and other Western countries, Roscosmos announced that it would abandon the ISS. program “after 2024”. He has since announced that he will remain on the ISS until 2028.
Although the timing of the ISS’s departure remains uncertain, the timeline reflects the Russian space agency’s goal of promoting its own interests in safety and clinical development, according to Roscosmos, which has been hampered due to foreign agreements on the ISS.
The ISS is expected to go through a planned de-orbit in 2030, but could remain in service until advertising stations are built.
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Jackson Ryan is a science journalist from Adelaide, Australia, who focuses on narrative and long-form nonfiction. He is most recently the president of the Association of Science Journalists of Australia. Between 2018 and 2023, he was a scientist at CNET. In 2022, he won the Eureka Prize for Science Journalism, which Australians call the “Oscars of Science. “Before all that, he earned his Ph. D. in molecular biology and once hosted a children’s television show on the Disney Channel, called “GameFest. “(Good luck locating him. ) She lives with a collection of more than 70 Christmas sweaters and has no pets, the latter of which she hopes to rectify. One day.
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