Russia will withdraw from the International Space Station project “after 2024” after fulfilling its obligations.
The information is contained in a Kremlin statement about a meeting between the newly appointed head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“You know that we are working within the framework of international cooperation on the International Space Station. Undoubtedly, we will fulfill all our obligations to our partners, but the decision to leave the station after 2024 was taken,” Borisov told Putin in the document issued by the Kremlin.
“I think by this time we will start to form the Russian orbital station,” Borisov said.
Russia’s withdrawal would be a major blow to the ISS, a decades-old model of international cooperation. The announcement comes at a time when the war in Ukraine has deeply shaken relations with the US and Europe.
NASA has not been officially communicated
Russia has not communicated to NASA its intention to withdraw from the ISS in 2024, a senior US space agency official told Reuters.
“Nothing official yet,” Robyn Gatens, NASA’s space station director, told Reuters at a press conference. ISS in Washington.
“We literally just saw that too. We have not received anything official,” she added.
Source: CNN Brasil
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