Russia had previously threatened to leave the ISS by 2024, but is now the last of NASA's partners to agree to stay aboard the station for a few more years.
With Russia leaving in 2028, and with the ISS hanging out in low Earth orbit until 2030, NASA and its partners will have to manage the station on their own. As Russian spacecraft are currently used to maneuver the ISS, the remaining partners will have to find or develop that important capability.
The space station occasionally has to dodge satellites andmeant to retire in 2024, but NASA and its international partners recently agreed to extend its lifeline in space. “Extending our time aboard this amazing platform allows us to reap the benefits of more than two decades of experiments and technology demonstrations, as well as continue to materialize even greater discovery to come,” Robyn Gatens, director of the ISS Division at NASA Headquarters, said in the blog post.
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