Exactly when that will happen is unclear.
Even now, it’s unclear exactly how this decision has been communicated to the United States. Senior NASA officials at the International Space Station Research and Development Conference in Washington, DC, on Tuesday said they had not received any communication from Roscosmos. “We haven’t received any official word from the partner,” Robyn Gatens, the director of the International Space Station at NASA, said during a panel at the conference.
Late Tuesday afternoon, NASA administrator Bill Nelson also issued a statement. “NASA is committed to the safe operation of the International Space Station through 2030 and is coordinating with our partners. NASA has not been made aware of decisions from any of the partners, though we are continuing to build future capabilities to assure our major presence in low-Earth orbit.”
Withdrawing from the ISS partnership isn’t so simple as stating one’s intent to leave. The intergovernmental agreement, or IGA, that governs the ISS partnership states that most partners must give other ISS partners
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