Yuri Koptev: Russian space station can be collected from the ISS modules – RIA

The Russian space station will be created from the modules of the ISS and will be more responsive to national interests. This was stated by the head of the Scientific and Technical Council of the Russian Space Agency Yuri Koptev. In an interview to a Russian media, he commented on plans to create a national space station, voiced by the president during a straight line.

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The draft Federal Space Program provides an opportunity after 2024 on the basis of three modules of the International Space Station to create a Russian space station. This was stated by the head of the Scientific and Technical Council of the Russian Space Agency Yuri Koptev in an interview with the newspaper “Izvestia».
According to Koptev, talking about the creation of such a station would go to if it is decided to end cooperation with current partners in the ISS program in 2024 year and to discontinue the currently existing station. “National Russian space station can be created on the basis of the modules to be mounted to it after 2017: a multi-purpose laboratory module (MLM), node module and scientific power module (NEM),” – he said.
To further modules could exist outside of the ISS and provide a basis for the construction and development of the Russian space station, they need to be refined, Koptev said.
At the same time, he noted that in the framework of cooperation in the ISS program has duties to 2020 year and there is agreement in principle to extend the partnership until 2024. However, the Russian segment of the station is planned to be expanded and strengthened. Three new modules, according to the head of scientific and technical council of the Russian Space Agency, will be loaded with the program of research and experimentation more applied nature, aimed at achieving tangible results.
«In the context of optimization of the budget, we must focus not on the political and propaganda effect of the presence in the space, and to obtain concrete results with the possibility of their use in the world, “- said the Copts in an interview with” Izvestiya “. According to experts, the emergence of three new Russian module significantly expands the capabilities of the Russian segment of the ISS – the country away from dependence in terms of energy production from the American segment of the station. This allows the calculation of the expansion program of experiments and to change the essence of these experiments. This, according to Kopteva can go including the organization of experiments on applications from those interested in carrying out experiments in orbit within the improvement of various technologies.

Source: oko-planet.su