Russia's new space chief on Tuesday signalled his country's intent to withdraw from the International Space Station after 2024, but a senior Nasa official said Moscow has not communicated its intent to pull out of the two-decade-old orbital partnership ...
“Of course, we will fulfil all our obligations to our partners, but the decision about withdrawing from the station after 2024 has been made,” Yuri Borisov, the newly appointed director-general of Russia’s space agency, told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday.
“Nothing official yet,” Gatens said in an interview at an International Space Station conference in Washington.
Asked for clarification on Russia’s space station plans, a Roscosmos spokeswoman referred Reuters to Borisov’s remarks without saying whether it represented the agency’s official position. A football field-sized orbital science laboratory about 400km above Earth, the station counts Canada, Japan and the European Space Agency as other key partners, though Russia and the US are regarded as the outpost’s core stakeholders – Russian thrusters control the station’s position in orbit, while an American power grid keeps the outpost running.
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