Moscow. August 24. INTERFAX-Russia, in case of withdrawal from the ISS project, will not abandon its obligations to organize the flooding of the station when its resource is exhausted, said the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.
"The American segment is also stale. Therefore, we can separate by ensuring that the ISS is flooded before that, " Rogozin said on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station.
As Rogozin previously reported, at the moment, the Russian Progress ships are the only means capable of maneuvering the ISS.
According to him, according to the agreement with the partners, it is the Russian side that will have to ensure the flooding of the station at the end of its operation.
"It should be borne in mind that the ISS dodges space debris and compensates for its orbit exclusively at the expense of the Russian Progress spacecraft. One of them docked to the station today. And when the time comes, and the station will develop its resource, it will be the Russian ships that will have to flood it planned at a certain point in the ocean, " he said.
