The state Corporation Roscosmos has reduced the preparation time for conducting experiments on the International Space Station (ISS) to one and a half years. This was announced on July 30 by the head of the corporation Dmitry Rogozin.
"We really noticed that until 2018, a lot of experiments were developed and approved for an extremely long time. Some experiments and their development reached the age of ten, when the developer himself had already grown old and the experiment itself had lost its scientific significance and relevance, " Rogozin said on Komsomolskaya Pravda radio.
Rogozin noted that the process of preparing for experiments has been revised and now it takes one and a half, maximum two years to set up an experiment.
Earlier in the day, Rogozin said that the launch of the next Russian module to the ISS is scheduled for November 24. This will be the Berth node module, which will expand the possibilities of docking with the station of Russian spacecraft, including the new Orel spacecraft designed for flights to the Moon.
On July 29, the multifunctional laboratory module "Science" was docked to the ISS, intended for the implementation of the Russian program of scientific and applied research and experiments. It was created in order to expand the functionality of the Russian segment of the ISS and became the first Russian module sent to the ISS in 11 years.
Russia plans to withdraw from the ISS project from 2025 and create its own national orbital station. The first version of its creation provides for the retrofitting of the Russian segment of the ISS with nodal and scientific-energy modules, and after the completion of the operation of the ISS, their separation together with the previously docked "Science". The second option provides for the creation of a station in a high-latitude orbit.
It is expected that the station will not be permanently inhabited, it will be visited by crews of 2-4 people. Flights to it will be carried out by cargo ships "Progress", manned by" Soyuz "and"Eagles".
