Russian Orbital Station's deployment in new orbit scheduled for 2030-2034 - chief designer

Russian Orbital Station's deployment in new orbit scheduled for 2030-2034 - chief designer MOSCOW. April 8 (Interfax) - The Russian Orbital Station (ROS) will start to deploy in 2030 after the Russian segment is separated from the International Space Station (ISS), and the ROS' full configuration is expected to be deployed in orbit by 2034, Energia Rocket and Space Corporation Deputy General Designer and ROS Chief Designer Vladimir Kozhevnikov said.

According to Kozhevnikov's presentation at the Team of the Future conference at the Moscow Aviation Institute, the ROS' separation from the ISS is scheduled for 2030 and its full configuration is expected to be deployed by 2034. "

We will use the International Space Station's resources. We will start with the station's first module - this is a universal node module that will be docked in place of the current node module [Prichal]," he said. The Prichal module will be undocked from the ISS and sunk into the ocean, Kozhevnikov's presentation shows.

Kozhevnikov also said that neither the resources not the technical limitations of the Nauka module, launched in 2021, allow it to be transformed into a new station. "

Therefore, the first module is the node module, after which the science and power module is docked, then the airlock. The cluster of these three modules plus the multipurpose laboratory module [Nauka] - the last and the biggest module - will be undocked and the autonomous existence of the ROS will begin," he said. On February 19, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov said that Russia planned to start deploying its own space station in 2028.