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August 27, 2021
The Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (part of the State Corporation Roscosmos) is working on the launch of the first ever Russian orbital station with the functions of a space port. This was announced on Thursday on the RSC Energia YouTube channel in a program dedicated to the corporation's activities.
ROSS - Russian Orbital Service Station. The next stage of Russia's space activities. (...) There will be no permanent crew at the station; ROSS will become a space port for small spacecraft ”, - reported on the air.
ROSS - Russian Orbital Service Station
According to representatives of RSC Energia, the cosmonauts will fly on ROSS on a rotational basis, and the station infrastructure will be able to serve the orbiters. ROSS is planned in the form of a cloud station, when the station contains not only a core, but also autonomous modules flying around it, which periodically approach the station for its maintenance.
“ROSS is a creatively rethought and technically more perfect return to the idea of the Mir-2 station. Placement of "Mira-2" was also assumed at high latitudes of the planet. This would allow to fully observe the territory of our country and especially interesting from the economic point of view areas of the Arctic, ”it was reported.
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The general director of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin in an interview with TASS said that he had sent a letter to the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Yuri Borisov with a detailed roadmap for the project and materials from the Presidium of the Scientific and Technical Council of Roscosmos. He clarified that the inclination of the ROSS orbit (51.6 degrees or 97-98 degrees) will be determined during the preliminary design.
Related links (in Russian):
ROSCOSMOS Press Release: https://www.roscosmos.ru/32343/
Russian orbital station: https://www.roscosmos.ru/tag/rossiyskaja-orbital_naja-stancija/
RSC Energia: https://www.roscosmos.ru/tag/rkk-ehnergija/
Image, Video, Text, Credits: ROSCOSMOS/RSC Energia/Orbiter.ch Aerospace/Roland Berga.
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